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Show Unfolding Leafage. Leaves that are unfolding have a charming daintiness in color and plait-lngs. plait-lngs. Tbey exemplify that brave fragility fra-gility that makes human childhood so appealing. A collection of just-opened just-opened leaves will make a rare study In design. The willow, a very light thin green, tinged with red and woolly-white woolly-white underneath ; birches, yellow-green yellow-green with a warm furry coating of white and fluted like tiny half-opened half-opened fans; poplars, living green and fragrant with balsam ; downy mouse- ears elms, showing every crease and I fold made by their swaddling-clothes; maples, tairly ooslng sweet sap and green coloring matter; ash leaves, tender ten-der and tempting enough to malci a alad. |