Vol. XXXIX, No. 6 
August, 1924 
The Garden 
MAGAZINE 
“ I WILL SING OF THE BOUNTY OF THE BIG TREES, 
THEY ARE THE GREEN TENTS OF THE ALMIGHTY, 
HE HATH SET THEM UP FOR COMFORT AND FOR SHELTER.” 
Henry Van Dyke 
For centuries trees have been interwoven with the life of mankind as reli¬ 
gious symbols, as symbols of domesticity—in New England the knarled and 
friendly Apple, in California the Live Oak throwing hospitable arms across 
this outdoor living room and patterning its pavement with amber light 
and shade at the Santa Barbara home of Mrs. Robert Cameron Rogers 
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