... In the sunlight the silvery-yellow feathering and the metallic sheen of trunk and branches make the yellow birch one of the most attractive trees of the New England forest. Bark.—Bark of trunks ... Conspicuous in winter by the airy lightness of the narrow open head and by the contrast of the white trunk with the dark spray; in summer, when the sun shines and the air stirs, by the delicacy, tremulous ... hill-slopes, banks of rivers. Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the Lake Superior region. Maine,—frequent; New Hampshire,—in the highlands of the southern section, and along the Connecticut river...