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out any permanent branches. If the leading shoot of a 

 young tree growing alone be broken off, the tree ceases to 

 grow much higher, but sends out many ramifying boughs ; 

 but a young forest tree in similar circumstances acts differ- 

 ently ; another shoot is sent out, which becomes the leader, 

 and carries up the perpendicular, and this after the tree has 

 attained a considerable height and circumference, as I have 

 seen in many instances. It is this circumstance of growing 



MAPLE {Acer Saccliarinum) IN A CLEARING.* 



* There is an apparent incongruity in representing trees naked and leaf- 

 less in the middle of June, but the object was to illustrate the mode of 

 ramification, on which the appearance alluded to in the text depends. 



