272 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



We must not forget that the beauty of Nature 

 confines itself to no rule of limitation : even as " one 

 star differeth from another star in glory," so beauty is 

 made perfect by differences in type — and in Nature 



Old Norway Pine. 



these are manifold. The pity of it is that so few of 

 us are willing to believe in more than one or two 

 types. I will not say, then, that Pinus resinosa is 

 more ornamental than Pinus /Strohus, but that the 

 beauty of the former can never be appreciated until 

 the beauty of the latter emphasizes it by contrast. 



