TREES 



oak tree survive such treatment, and how 

 can the tender rootlets find their way into 

 so hard and uncongenial a soil? I shall 

 make an expedition to this same town next 

 Spring for the special purpose of seeing 

 the condition of those trees. 



A tree ten years after planting should have 

 attained a good size, give a fair amount of 

 shade and be a beautiful object. But cul- 

 tivate modest expectations as to the growth 

 of the trees you plant, and think only of 

 those who are to come after you and enjoy 

 the shade, and new surprises will be yours 

 each year. I have never planted a tree with- 

 out thoughts of possible grandchildren who 

 would enjoy its beauty. 



There is a legend that a great-grandmother 

 in our family, riding as a bride with her 

 young husband to their new home, almost in 

 the wilderness, planted her riding switch used 

 the last day of the journey, at the foot of 

 the avenue leading to the house. The switch 

 had been cut from an elm and retained so 

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