QUERCUS ALBA 



ing year, the struggle for growth 

 had grown fiercer, the necessity for 

 dominance more insistent. And 

 among the thousands of comba- 

 tants Quercus Alba, no longer little 

 Quercus Alba, but Quercus Alba, 

 the large sapling, was struggling 

 with the rest; yet, though there were 

 still many contingencies which 

 might alter the denouement, an ob- 

 server could have seen that this 

 particular sapling was in the lead. 



Just why this was so no man could 



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