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especially in low situations by the side of little 
streams, I have seen almost every girdled tree 
covered with the rich foliage of the trumpet-flower, 
and most of them in full blossom; altogether 
RUBY-THROAT HUMMING-BIRD AND TRUMPET- FLOWER. 
changing the character of those unsightly trunks, 
rendering them objects on whose beauty the eye 
delights to gaze. Sometimes the plant has en- 
twined round an old broken stump of low stature ; 
in this case, having risen to the height of its sup- 
port, it begins to spread laterally, and soon forms 
a large round bush. 
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