. Trees in nature, myth and art; . pply its other defects (which makessome judge it unworthy to be brought into thecatalogue of woods to be propagated), I mayfor once be permitted to play the empiric, andto gratify our laborious woodman with adraught of his own liquor: And the rather,because these kind of secrets are not yet suf-ficiently cultivated; and ingenious planterswould by all means be encouraged to makemore trials of this nature, as the Indians, andother nations, have done on their palms, andtrees of several kinds, to their great emolu-ment. Evelyn notes that the birch can accom-modat
. Trees in nature, myth and art; . pply its other defects (which makessome judge it unworthy to be brought into thecatalogue of woods to be propagated), I mayfor once be permitted to play the empiric, andto gratify our laborious woodman with adraught of his own liquor: And the rather,because these kind of secrets are not yet suf-ficiently cultivated; and ingenious planterswould by all means be encouraged to makemore trials of this nature, as the Indians, andother nations, have done on their palms, andtrees of several kinds, to their great emolu-ment. Evelyn notes that the birch can accom-modate itself to almost any kind of soil, whichcannot be too barren, he says, for it willthrive in the dry, and the wet, sand and stony,marshes and bogs ; the water-galls and fuliginousroots of forests that hardly bear any grass, domany times spontaneously produce it in abund-ance whether the place be high, or low, andnothing comes amiss to it. I am most familiar with it as a fringe roundplantations of Scots pine ; and either in summer. SILVER IURCHES. NORWAY TREES IN NATURE 83 or winter it looks singularly beautiful againstthe dark background they make for it. Intravelling through the pine-forests of GermanyI have felt almost as if I were at home inCheshire, when I have seen it on their was Coleridge who called it the Lady ofthe Woods . Few pictures have become morepopular through reproduction than the one ofa group of birches to which the painter, , gave the title The Three Graces .Hamerton, as we have already seen, thoughtit the most beautiful of our lighter trees. Thebirch is always beautiful in herself, he says,and not the least beautiful in winter, when allher light, woody structure is distinctly visible,from the silvery trunk to the dark purplesprays. In spring her light green foliagestrikes the eye as crude, but in autumn thethinly scattered little leaves of pale gold tellwith the greatest brilliance amongst the darkershades of the forest, and the whit
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