in bloom. 



In this same garden I saw such a splendid group of towering 

 Silver Lindens, Canoe birch, Elder and Sorrel trees. What a 

 strikingly handsome tree the Sorrel is from one year's end to the 

 other ! These had been in place less than eight years. You see, if 

 we would all start little tree plantations of our own American ever- 

 green and deciduous types, we would always have trees for every 

 purpose. Besides, don't you think one must have a very special 

 affection for a tree one has seen develop from a mere seedling, as it 

 were, into a tall and beautiful "grown up" ? Don't you admire the 

 narrow, column-like, extremely pointed pyramidal evergreens 

 growing in angles and flat against broad and narrow wall spaces, 

 just as one sees them in Italy? 



Wonderfully decorative and distinctive they are grown in that 

 way, a relief from vines and more suitable in many instances. 



Do plant a few young trees of the high-arched elm. They may 

 be quite near the house. They cannot exclude the light just because 

 of their high arching form. They always recall to mind the lines: 

 "Oh thou high-arching tree. 

 Nearer to Heaven than I 

 Thou seemst to be!" 



It is a pretty custom of some countries to plant a tree on each 

 birthday for each child, and events of particular interest are made 

 memorable in the same lasting way. It is a custom we, too, might 

 adopt. Don't you agree with me? 



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