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The Apple-Tree

by Bailey Liberty Hyde

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Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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...attract the artist. Even when gnarly and broken, itdoes not convey an impression of decrepitude and decay but rather of ahardy old character bearing his burdens. In every winter landscape Ilook instinctively for the apple-tree. We are so accustomed to the apple-tree as a part of an orchard, whereit is trimmed into shape and its bolder irregularities controlled, that we do not think it has beauty when left to itself to grow as itwill. An apple-tree that takes its own course, as does a pine-tree oran oak, is looked on as unkempt and unprofitable and as a sorry objectin the landscape, advertizing the neglect of the owner. Yet if theapple-tree had never borne good fruit, we should plant it for itsbloom and its picturesqueness as we plant a hawthorn or a locust-tree. In winter and in summer, and in the months between, my apple-tree is agreat fact. It is a character in the population of my scenery, standing for certain human emotions. The tree is a living thing, notmerely a something that...