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CHAPTER VII. 



TREES. 



USES OF TREES THE OAK VARIETIES OP THE OAK STRUC- 

 TURE OF THE ACORN GROWTH OF THE TREE CIRCULATION 

 OF THE SAP EFFECT OF LIGHT UPON THE FOLIAGE LIVE- 

 OAK CORK-OAK HOLLY-OAK "OAKS OF BASHAN" 



BLACK AND WHITE-OAKS STATISTICS OF THE SIZE AND 



AGES OF VARCOUS OAKS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE THE 



CHESTNUT AND THE CHESTNUT-OAK AGE AND SIZE OF THB 

 CHESTNUT THE BEECH THE WALNUT THE HICKORY. 



ET us now turn our attention from 

 the beautiful verdure which clothes 

 the surface of the earth, and behold 

 the wonders of creative skill, as dis- 

 played in the majestic Trees of the 

 Forest. How gracefully they bend 

 their waving summits to the passing gale ! 

 How softly murmurs the fragrant breath of 

 summer through their leafy bowers ! How 

 gorgeous are the tints in which sere autumn 

 robes them ! While dark and dreary winter, with its 

 thousand storms, wraps its grey mantle around their 

 naked branches. 



How indispensably necessary to our comfort are 

 trees ! How endless are the uses to which they are 

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