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CHAPTHE VLE. 
TREES. 
USES OF TREES—THE OAK—VARIETIES OF 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-0AK — ‘‘ OAKS OF BASHAN’”’ — 
BLACK AND WHITE-OAKS — STATISTICS OF THE SIZE AND 
AGES OF VARIOUS OAKS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE —THE 
CHESTNUT AND THE CHESTNUT-OAK—AGE AND SIZE OF THE 
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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