"The birch path is one of the prettiest places in the world," observed Lucy Maud Montgomery in her classic Anne of Green Gables. Artists Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris both painted birch growing in natural settings. Certainly, whether in a garden setting or wild in the woods, there is something about birch that appeals to the Canadian psychic.
These, of course, are the classic Paper Birch, Betula papyrifera, also known as the Canoe Birch.