Sentence:  When near, the trees look singularly deplorable and untidy, although at the distance, the red-brown of the faded oaks mingling with the bright, vivid, green cedars, and here and there a silver-barked <WSD>buttonwood</WSD> tree raising its white delicate branches from among them, produce a very agreeable and harmonious blending to the eye. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The American sycamore or (American plane tree) ("Platanus occidentalis", family Platanaceae).