(,/:h'Mi.\.i I U).\ 



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no luiiT)' to (1l'\c1o|) leaves ; its first L,n'o\\tli is 

 |)r<)vi(lccl for b\- the rich suppl)- of food witliiii the 

 acorn. If, ho\ve\cr, we look carefully at its little 

 stem, we shall observe upon its surface a few 

 scattered scales, each w ith a rudinicntar)- bud in 

 its axil. When the shoot has attained a hei<^ht of 

 three or foiu- inches it develops its first i,n'een leaf, 



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and b\- the end of its first summer about six will 

 have been formed. A collection of the.se seedlins^ 

 trees, carefuU)' dried • and neatly arrans^ed in a 

 blank book, with the Knj^lish and Latin names 

 U) each, a note <jf the age of the .seedliny;, the 



■ TliL-v iiKML-lv iiLL-d to hc pluCL'cl hctwccH sliccts of blot- 

 tinjf paper, which shmild he dried daily and kept in a press 

 or nnder a weitjht tor a few days until the specimens are tit 

 to be placed in a liook. 



