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Trees And Plants-Pine: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Monterey. Poplar. Populus Fastigiata. Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lowlier droop their boughs.— BULWER-LYTTON — What Will He Do With It? Bk. XI. Ch. X.

Introductory lines. Sloe. Prunus Spinosa. From the white-blossomed sloe, my dear Chloe requested, A sprig her fair breast to adorn. No! by Heav'n, I exclaim'd, may I perish, If ever I plant in that bosom a thorn. C.— JOHN O'KEEFE — The Thorn.

In the hedge the frosted berries glow, The scarlet holly and the purple sloe.— SARAH HELEN WHITMAN — A Day of

the Indian Summer. Spice. Umbellularia Californica. The Spice-Tree lives in the garden green, Beside it the fountain flows; And a fair Bird sits the boughs between, And sings his melodious woes. * * * * * * That out-bound stem has branches three; On each a thousand blossoms grow; And old as aught of time can be, The root stands fast in the rocks below.— JOHN STERLING — The Spice-Tree.

Sts. 1 and 3. Sycamore. Acer Pseudo-Platanus. Yon night moths that hover where honey brims over From sycamore blossoms.— JEAN INGELOW — Songs of Seven. Seven

Times Three. Thorn. Cratægus. Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.— BURNS — The Cotter's Saturday Night. St. 9.

Tulip-Tree. Liriodendron Tulipifera. Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine- 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine.— BRYANT — A Strange Lady. St. 6.