AMONG THE BIRCHES ON THE BATTEN KILL: NEAR BENNINGTON, VERMONT With its enticing curves and wooded intervals, the Batten Kill, whose name suggests old Dutch New York, flows into the Hudson. The white birch, perhaps the most striking of Vermont's native trees, especially when growing in clustered form, adds much to the natural beauty of the State's lakes and streams.

The 400 lakes of the Green Mountain State are ideal for fishing, swimming, and boating. Echo, one of the loveliest, belongs to a chain of small lakes between Ludlow and Plymouth Union.

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A RIOT OF LILIES IN A PLYMOUTH UNION GARDEN

Autochrome by Clifton Adams

National Geographic Society Old-fashioned flowers are tended with loving care in Vermont, and their blossoming time in late spring is an occasion of rare enjoyment.

Looking south from the "chin" of Mount Mansfield (see, also, Color Plate XI) one may see Mount Ethan Allen, named for the Revolutionary hero, Camels Hump, and others of the chain of "hills that shall be green and never die" leading to the Massachusetts line. The Long Trail (see illustrations pages 344 and 345) traverses these hills.

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