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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



A TREE TOP BRACED AS AN OLD MAN WITH A CANE. 

 Photograph by Frank Grafton, Chester, West Virginia. 



the brook in the meadow. So it is with 

 -any phase of nature. 



These thoughts have come vividly 

 to mind as I have examined a mass of 

 photographs of trees sent by our cam- 

 •erists. From these I have culled a few 

 that tell a storv of remarkable interest. 



United tree trunks are not especially 

 rare but examples so good as those 

 sent by Mrs. R. C. Fahrion, Stuart, 

 Iowa, and by Mr. Frank Grafton, Ches- 

 ter, West Virginia, are really remark- 

 able. In these specimens there is not 

 a vestige, as in most unions that we 



A CURIOUS LIVE OAK. 

 Photograph by Ellen Barnes, Battle Creek, Michigan. 



