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Bctulci leilta. Natural Order: Betulacece — Birch Family. 
‘‘NOWN as the black, cherry or sweet Birch, and sometimes 
called mountain mahogany from the hardness of its wood, this 
valuable tree abounds in the United States from New England 
to Ohio, and often reaches a height of seventy, and a diameter 
Uof three, feet. Children are very fond of the inner bark of this 
tree in springtime, when it has an aromatic fragrance and 
|/t|> pl ea r san t flavor. It is from the Paper Birch that the Indians obtain 
^ b ai 'k f° r light and buoyant canoes, in which they glide in 
safety through the most dangerous waters. The Yellow or Silver 
Birch is the artist’s tree -par excellence. Its beautiful outer bark, like 
satin in luster, peels from around the trunk and branches, and hangs 
in the most fantastic rolls and curls, resting on an undertone of warm 
W and tender brown, making it one of the choicest and most illuminat¬ 
ing trees in a woodland sketch, and one that always delights a painter’s heart. 
T^OR faultless was her form as beauty’s queen, 
And every winning grace that love demands, 
With mild attemper’d dignity was seen 
Play o’er each lovely limb, and deck her angel mien. 
TTER face so fair, as flesh it seemed not, 
But heavenly portrait of bright angels’ hue, 
Clear as the sky, withouten blame or blot, 
Through goodly mixture of complexion’s dew. 
— Spenser. 
U RACEFUL to sight, and elegant to thought, 
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The great are vanquish’d, and the wise are taught. 
—Young. 
Unto her limbs itself doth mold, 
Languidly ever; and, amid 
Her full black ringlets, downward rolled, 
Glows forth each softly-shadowed arm, 
With bracelets of the diamond bright. 
Her constant beauty doth inform 
Stillness with love, and day with light. 
— Tennyson. 
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