Winter Meeting. 247 



Time will not permit of our discussing the phenomena of plant life, 

 we will only say that vegetable and animal lives in no way differ in 

 principle, there is a perfect analogy between the two. But in order 

 to show you the pleasure that is to be derived from the study of the 

 tree, we would say that all the plants possess a real life, they eat. 

 drink, feed and think, they sleep, breathe and secrete, in short perform 

 all the functions of suppl}^, repair, development and reproduction." 



Can you go into the woods and name one-half the varieties of 

 forest trees? Then is it any wonder that you do not love the trees? 

 Can you love people and not know them? Know the different mem- 

 bers of one family not one member only. Such, for instance, as the 

 family of oaks, black, white, red, brown, Spanish, and so on or the 

 family of elms. If you do not know them thus then you loose half, 

 if not all, the pleasure of the study of our forests. 'Nature study in 

 this direction is a delight, a recreation, as well as a good lesson to all 

 of us if we will but make use of it. We can see beauty in every^ leaf 

 and bud and branch and variety and when the leaves have fallen then 

 in the twigs and branches and bark and lichens that grow thereon. 



Nature in and among our trees and the growth of these trees is a 

 valuable, delightful, interesting and profitable study as is any science. 



He who plants a tree. 



He plants love. 



Tents of coolness spreading out 



Above wayfarers he may not live to see. 



Gifts that grow, are best; 



Hands that bless, are blest; 



Plant! life does the rest. 



Heaven and earth helps him who plants a tree. 



And his work its own reward shall see." 



What is science? I know not what you think, but in my humble 

 opinion science is "seeing things that you -look at and drawing con- 

 clusions from what you see." Can you apply this to our trees and 

 tree planting? Then you will become a scientific forester. If you thus 

 love nature-study and follow it you will always be ready to protect 

 the trees, young and old, planted or being planted, protect them : 



First. From our city authorities, shame to them be it said. 



Second. From our tree butchers, who cut them to pieces. 



Third. From our telephone and electric light companies, when 

 they want to run a wire over or among them. 



Fourth. From the man who hitches horses to them and lets the 

 bark be pealed off. 



Fifth. From the careless boys. 



