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Title: The woods and by-ways of New England
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n supplied with a new growth of trees. Inthe place of them were a few scrub oaks, some whortle-berry-bushes, and other native shrubs; the trees weresmaller, and there was a greater predominance of pitch-pine in all the more sandy parts of the tract, and nu-merous white birches had sprung up among them. Such is the change, he remarked, which is graduallytaking place over the whole continent. He seemed toregret this change, and thought the progress of the civil-ized arts, though it rendered necessary the clearing of thegreater part of the wooded country, ought not to be at-tended with such universal devastation. Some spaciouswood ought to remain, in every region, in which the wildanimals would be protected, and where we might view thegrounds as they appeared when the wild Indian was lordof this continent. Even at that time I found some acresof forest which had been unmolested still retaining thosegrand, wild, and rugged features that entitled the regionto the poetic name of Dark Plains.
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THE EED MAPLE. Not dainty of its soil, but thriving equally well in a bogor upon a fertile river-bank, by the side of a stream orupon a dry eminence; coming forth in the spring, likemorning in the east, arrayed in crimson and purple;bearing itself not proudly, but gracefully, in modest green,among the more stately trees in summer; and, ere it bidsadieu to the season, stepping forth in robes of gold, ver-milion, crimson, and variegated scarlet, stands the queenof the American forest, the pride of all eyes and thedelight of every picturesque observer of nature, — theEed Maple. There are but few trees that surpass itin general beauty of form and proportion, and in thevariety and splendor of its autumnal tints it is notequalled by any known tree. Without this species, theAmerican forest would hardly be distinguished from thatof Europe by any superiority of tinting. It stands amongthe occupants of the forest like Venus among the planets,the brightest in the midst of brightness, and the m

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