TREES AT LEISURE 



The hickories resemble the 

 oaks except that they are more 

 refined and less virile; their 

 limbs are shorter and grace is 

 gained as strength is lost. Each 

 species asserts an unmistakable 

 individuality. The shagbark 

 vaunts the superfluity of its rai- 

 ment; the pignut lifts a narrow 

 oblong head, its lower branches 

 gnarled and drooping; less 

 drooping are the lower branches 

 of the mockernut and much 

 more rounded its outline, while 

 the bitternut bole divides into 

 several large branches that 

 spread and form a broad head. 

 Those cousins of the hickories, 

 the black walnut and the butter- 

 nut, attract our attention by 

 their sparse rather coarse ter- 

 minal twigs. The wide flattened 

 ridges of its deeply furrowed 



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