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URPLE LEAVED BEECH. 
(Fagus Purpurea.) 
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'JpHIS grand addition to our lawn decorations was first dis- 
covered in a German forest, and is an elegant, vigorous 
tree, growing 40 to 50 feet high. The foliage in spring is 
djep purple, later changing to crimson, and again in the fall 
to a dull purplish green. Leaves are rich, glossy and ele- 
gant. These remarkable trees are beautiful while young, but 
become magnificent with age. As single specimens upon the 
lawn they exhibit an array of valuable and attractive features 
I not found in any other tree and are indispensable to the land- 
I scape gardener. 
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