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4. Draw two diagrams to show the branching of imaginary trees 

 with the chief branches drooping downwards and (a) buds developing 

 inwards, (b) buds developing outwards. 



HOME WORK. 



Sketch from nature the forms of six trees in which you can 

 recognise the branch pattern, showing in each case the trunks and 

 branches. Put each sketch on a separate sheet of paper with the 

 name underneath. 



CHAPTER VI 



TREE PLANTING AND TREE FELLING 



LESSON 1. (A WALK) 

 Season. Third week in November. 



Although when a country is prosperous and thickly 

 inhabited its prosperity can, as a general rule, be seen 

 in its abundant cornlands, it is important that there 

 should be some woods scattered about among the 

 cultivated land to act as a shelter for the crops' as 

 well as for the timber they yield. During the latter 

 part of the nineteenth century it was at length realized 

 that in England trees were being cut down far more 

 rapidly than they were growing up, and that at this 

 rate we should soon have hardly any trees left. Since 

 then a little more care has been taken as old trees are 

 felled to make plantations of young ones that will in 

 time take their place. In order to do this successfully 

 and to get the best possible yield of timber it is neces- 

 sary to understand something of the conditions under 



