HOW TO KNOW THE TREES 



EVERY one of us loves the sight of green things growing. It Is natural 

 that trees, which are greatest in all the plant kingdom, should inspire in us 

 the highest admiration. Their terms of life so far outrun the puny human 

 span! They stand so high, and spread so far their sheltering arms! We 

 bless them for the gifts they bring to supply our bodily needs, and for their 

 beauty, which feeds our souls! 



To love trees intelligently we must learn to know them. We must be 

 able to call them by name, whenever and wherever we meet them. This 

 is fundamental to any friendship. It is a fund of knowledge that starts 

 with little, but grows more rapidly, year by year. 



Turned loose in a forest, we are first confused and discouraged by the 

 number of different kinds of trees, all unknown to us. Next, we notice 

 similarities of leaf or flower or fruit that show a number of individual trees 

 to be of the same kind, or species. Perhaps these differ but slighth' 



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