Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — Trees Have Individual Winter Beauty That Is Lost When Leaves Come [ARTICLE]

Trees Have Individual Winter Beauty That Is Lost When Leaves Come

Each ,tree has a special and distinct winter beauty of its own in the outline of branches and stems and twigs —a beauty which Is lost to us once the leaves appear, but which suggests an exquisite etching inwinter when the dark lines are silhouetted against the £ks, wries Flora Klickman, in “Between the Larch-Woods and the Weir.“” The most graceful is the birch, with its light tracery of fine filaments, often with tassel-like catkins dangling at the end. The oak and beech give the impression of enormous strength in’the ease with which they fling outright their massive arms with seldom any tendency to droop. And each tree has its special and distinct melody when the wind signals the forest orchestra; there is the sea surge of the beeches ; the Swish of the heavily -plumed firs, the rain-sqund of the twinkling aspen, the soft whisper of the birches, the aeolian ftum of pines, and the sibilant rustle of the dry leaves clinging to the winter oak.