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think, a sweet and generous nature to have this strong 

 relish for beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for 

 the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a 

 grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural 

 economy. It is worthy of liberal, and free-born, and 

 aspiring men. He who plants an oak looks forward to 

 future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can lie less 

 selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade nor 

 enjoy its shelter; but he exults in the idea that the acorn 

 which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a 

 lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing 

 and benefiting mankind long after he shall have ceased 

 to tread his paternal fields." 



White Oak : We will hear what O. W. Holmes says 

 on this subject. 



Tamarack (Elias) : Dr. O. W. Holmes says : " I have 

 written many verses, but the best poems I have produced 

 are the trees I planted on the hillside which overlooks the 

 broad meadows, scalloped and rounded at their edges by 

 loops of the sinuous Housatonic. Nature finds rhymes 

 for them in the recurring measures of the seasons. Win- 

 ter strips them of their ornaments, and gives them, as it 

 were, in prose translation ; and summer reclothes them in 

 all the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What 

 are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and 

 idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and firs and 

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