OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Volume VIII 
Madison, Wisconsin, March, 1918 
Number 7 
A tree, undoubtedly, is one of the most beautiful objects in nature. Airy and delicate in its youth, luxuriant 
and majestic in its prime, venerable and picturesque in its old age, it constitutes in its various forms, the greatest 
charm and beauty of the earth in all countries. — Downing. 
