Among the Trees at Elmridge

the great easy arm-chair with dolls and toys and picture-books in a pile that seemed as if it wo

dusty towns, where it seems to flourish as well as in its favorite situation by a running stream. An old English writer calls the poplars 'hospitable trees, for anything thrives under their shade.' They are not hand

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plars at Elmridge

ll again, though there are a good many in the city. The poplar is often planted by the roadside because it gr

bright, glossy green, which grow loosely on long branches, A peculiarity of this tree is that before the leaves begin to expand the buds are covered with a yellow, glutinous balsam that diffuses a penetrating

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trees have a smooth, leather-like bark. The broad leaves, of a very rich green, grow on stems nearly as long as themselves, and the flowering aments are of a l

ow like real neckl

necklace. In Europe it is known as the Swiss poplar and the black Italian poplar. Its timber is much valued there for building. There are also the black poplar and that queer,

"right in front of Mrs. Bush's old house; a

like a tall spire, and in hot, calm weather drops of clear water trickle from its leaves like a slight shower of rain. It was once a favorite shade-tree, and a century ago great numbers of Lombardy

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handsome. Some one wrote of it long ago: 'There is no other tree that so pleasantly adorns the sides of narrow lanes and avenues, and so neatly accommodates itself to limited enclosures. Its foliage is dense and of the liveliest verdure, making delicate music to the soft touch of every breeze. Its terebinthine odors scent the

" said Edith, "with

ms, in which the birds build their nests and where they fly in and out con

lways lived in cages," said the

g all over the Lombardy poplars?

o, and Miss Hars

bins kept it up all day. But I should not like to see the old Lombardy poplars hung with gilded

entedly, as she settled

Poplar-wood is soft, light and generally of a pale-yellow color; it is much used for toy-making and for boarded floors, 'for which last purpose it is well adapted from its whiteness and the facility with which it is scoured, an

Malcolm, "that all wooden thi

eply, "but it is said that if kept dry the wood will l

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ke cork, serves to support the nets of fishermen; the inner bark is used by the Kamschadales as a material for bread;

vered with soft silk when young, which remains only as a fringe on the edge at maturity, supported by a very slender footstalk about as long as the leaf, and compressed laterally from near the base. They are thus agitated by the slightest breath of wind with that

een bark, which gets whitish and rough as the tree grows old. The foliage is thin, but a single leaf will be found, when examined, uncommonly beautiful. A spray of the small aspen, when in leaf, is very light and airy-looking, and the leaves produce a constant rustling sound. 'Legends of no ordinary interest li

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