THE TWO OLDEST TREES 



find strange and unusual looking trees, 

 fern and other plant life illustrated; but 

 to my mind, I feel compelled to say 

 imagination has played too large a part 

 in the making of these drawings, for it is 

 my belief, and the proof is in the seeing, 

 that the forest growth when these trees 

 were growing was similar in general re- 

 spect to that we find in our Gulf States 

 of today. 



The cypress, the pine, the cedar, the 

 high palmetto and the ground palmetto, 

 and I think but am not sure, the oak and 

 the magnolia are the prevailing trees of 

 the agatized formations. The pine, the 

 cypress and the cedar, also the oak and 

 the magnolia, are my personal friends, 

 and while they lie prone and glisten, in 

 the bright sunlight, their hearts of stone 

 tell unmistakably of their separate indi- 

 viduality. 



The bark, the hollow heart, the punky 

 timber, the spike knotted timber, the churn 



