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of young people, and will not thrive near a house in 

 which there is no child. 



Blindfolded or in the darkest night these mountain- 

 eers can recognize the different kind of trees by their 

 "voices," as they call the rustling of their boughs. They 

 have a store of singular facts to prove the unaccountable 

 loves and hatreds between different trees, the world-old 

 antipathy known to all woodsmen between the oak and 

 the pine, for example, or that between the ash and 

 hickory. 



Beside the giant trees of California, there are certain 

 famous patriarchs in the forests of the South which are 

 regarded with universal reverence and affection. Two 

 cedars in the Nantchela mountains are estimated to be 

 more than a thousand years old, and a live oak on the 

 Gulf coast is believed by some persons to antedate the 

 Christian era. 



It is probable that the most magnificent trees on the 

 continent are a group of gigantic magnolias in the Atta- 



kapas, Louisiana. The Compte de P , a French lover 



of trees, hearing of these majestic growths, made a journey 

 to Lousiana to see them. The old Swiss horticulturist 

 who had them in charge thus described his visit : 



" He had never seen a magnolia. I took him through 

 the woods, that he should not see these giants until he was 

 close upon them. They stand like kings upon a high hill, 



