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Show Birch's Many Uses. No tree Is more useful to nirn than the birches the red birch rj the South, whose seeds fall Into fe mud In low waters and germinate 'o hold back the waters of the streams from tearing away t he banks; the yellow birch, like that which Burroughs "shaved by lire;" the black birch, so useful for Its beautiful wood; the cherry birch, of the same wonderful loveliness nnd whose Inner bark gives the essential oil of wlntorgrecn and the peculiar perfume to what we call "Ilussla leather:" the popular-leaved birch of which Lowell writes so beautifully, beau-tifully, and the canoe birch. New York Times |