i. FRUITFUL TREES. 



I shall speak of trees as we see them, love them, adore them in 

 the fields, where they are alive, holding their green sunshades 

 over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand 

 tongues, looking down on us with the sweet meekness which 

 belongs to huge but limited organisms. 



O. W. HOLMES. 



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