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season. This is also true of the maples; but the hard maple and Norway 
maple ripen in the fall. I find I have said a good deal about trees in general, 
but very little of their individuality. A learned professor states in the 
papers that he thinks plants have all the senses but that of hearing. I 
am glad they have not that of speech, for if they were endowed with that 
quality we should hear plenty of complaints about our treatment of 
them, but one thing we do know, we are all growing more observant and 
more appreciative of nature and her works and to me nothing is grander 
or more beautiful than a perfectly developed tree in all its foliaged beauty. 
To think of that wondrous, silent life, existing above and below, those 
skilled chemists working continuously, but relentlessly selecting “and 
absorbing those various ingredients to produce wood and fibre, bark,’and 
leaf and flower,even to the very tint and colour of the leaf and flower, and 
that last added grace, perfume, spring and summer, autumn and winter, 
Typical Native Pine. 
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in cold and heat, in light and dark,a never failing charm to the young and 
old, a type of eternity! 
We are fortunate in living in a latitude which is so congenial in its 
climate as to allow the growth of a large variety of the most useful trees, — 
not only in those that are indigenous to the soil, but also many others 
that are really valuable for the many purposes we require them for, and 
while it would be a fascinating subject to pursue to note how the various 
trees have their uses in an economic sense it would prove too lengthy a 
