Our forests and woodlands . LONDONJ. M. DENT ^ CO., ALDINE HOUSE 29 ^ 30 BEDFORD STREET, * No tree in all the grove but has its each its hue peculiar; paler sovie^And of a ivarmish grey ; the willow poplar, that with silver lines his ash far-stretching his iimbrageous arm ;Of deeper green the elm ; and deeper of the woods, the long-stirviving glossy-leaved and shining in the maple, and the beech of oily nutsProlific, and the lime at dewy eveDiffusing odours: nor unnoted passThe sycamore, capricious in green, Jiow t
Our forests and woodlands . LONDONJ. M. DENT ^ CO., ALDINE HOUSE 29 ^ 30 BEDFORD STREET, * No tree in all the grove but has its each its hue peculiar; paler sovie^And of a ivarmish grey ; the willow poplar, that with silver lines his ash far-stretching his iimbrageous arm ;Of deeper green the elm ; and deeper of the woods, the long-stirviving glossy-leaved and shining in the maple, and the beech of oily nutsProlific, and the lime at dewy eveDiffusing odours: nor unnoted passThe sycamore, capricious in green, Jiow tawny, and ere autujnn yetHave changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright. —COWPER, The Sofa. PREFACE ^ I speak only here as a plain Husbandman, and a simple Forester,out of the limits whereof I hope I have not unpardonably trans-gressd.^—Evelyns Syiva, 1664. * There is no way jcnder the stin so probable for improving our landas inclosing and planting the same. Therefore I wish it wereeffectually put in pj-actice !—J
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