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'When Spring has closed her delicate flowers, says a bright writer, 'and the multitudes that crowd around the footsteps of May have yielded their places to the brighter host of June, the willow scatters the golden aments that adorned it, and appears in the deeper garniture of its own green foliage. A group of these golden willows, seen in a rainstorm, will have so bright an appearance as to make it seem as if the sun were actually shining."
The aments, too, with their light silvery-green tint, glisten beautifully on the darker leaves." "How high do you think these trees are, Miss Harson?" asked Clara. "It makes me dizzy to look up to the top."
"Balm of Gilead" was the name that inquiry brought for this tree, and the resinous and sweet-smelling buds which preceded the rather inconspicuous catkins or aments of bloom seemed to justify the Biblical designation. Nearly a world tree is this poplar, which in some one of its variable forms is called also tacamahac, and balsam poplar as well.
At the corner by the stile, beyond which the willows were splendid against the blue with silvery aments and golden pollen, they turned by mutual impulse and retraced their steps. "I've simply had no one to talk to down here," she said. "Not what I call talking." "I hope," said Lewisham, making a resolute plunge, "perhaps while you are staying at Whortley ..."
In the earliest spring examine the swelling buds, of widely differing color and character, from which shortly will spring forth the catkins or aments of bloom, followed by the leaves of varied colors in the varied species, and with shapes as varied.
But the flowers of this species are only small greenish aments. Locust-wood is very durable, and, as it will bear exposure to all kinds of weather, it is much used in shipbuilding and as posts for gates.
"I see something," replied Malcolm: "there are flowers purple and yellow." "And what is the particular name for these tree-blossoms?" asked Miss Harson. "Isn't it catkins?" inquired Clara, timidly. "Yes, catkins, or aments. They hang, as you see, like long tassels of purple and gold, and are as fragrant as the bark. Bryant's line, "'The fragrant birch above him hung her tassels in the sky,
All the poplars produce more or less of this substance. "The river poplaris found on the banks of rivers and brooks and in wet places, and is a noble and graceful tree. The trunk is light gray in color, and the young trees have a smooth, leather-like bark. The broad leaves, of a very rich green, grow on stems nearly as long as themselves, and the flowering aments are of a light-red color.
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