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Burr Oak. Every particle of him is useful, even to his ashes. His bark is used for 

 tanning leather; his wood is hard, compact, heavy, tough and durable, good for heavy 

 wagons, plows, railroad ties, fence posts, ship timber, furniture, and finishing the interior 

 of houses. 



Swamp White Oak (Leona). As much of my timber is so nearly like that of White 

 Oak, and often passes for it, I will say, as a tree, " I am beautiful in every stage of my 

 growth ; at first, light, slender, delicate and waving; at last, broad, massive and grand, 

 but always graceful.'' 



Chestnut Oak (James). Emerson says of White Oak: " As an ornament to the land- 

 scape, or as a single object, no other tree is to be compared with it, in every period of 

 its growth, for picturesqueness, majesty, and inexhaustible variety of beauty. When 

 standing alone it throws out its mighty arms with an air of force and grandeur which have 

 made it everywhere to be considered the fittest emblem of strength and power of resist- 

 ance. Commonly the oak braves the storm to the last, without yielding, better than any 

 other tree. The limbs go out at a great an^le and stretch horizontally to a vast distance." 



Laurel Oak (John). The famous A. J. Downing said: " There are no grander or more 

 superb trees than our American oaks. We are fully disposed to concede it the first rank 

 among the denizens of the forest. As an ornamental object we consider the oak the 

 most varied in expression, the most beautiful, grand, majestic and picturesque of all 

 deciduous trees." 



Black Jack Oak (Herbert). Poetry, history, mythology and romance abound in 

 references to the oak. I should like to hear from our fellow trees some common quota- 

 tions in reference to the oak. 



White Ash (Myrtie). " The unwedgeable and gnarled oak." 



Black Ash (Ella). "The old oaken bucket." 



Sugar Maple (Louise). " Jove's own tree that holds the woods in awful sovereignty." 



Red Maple (Anna). " A goodly oak, whose boughs were mass'd with age." 



Scarlet Oak (Ben.). " King of the woods." 



Blue Ash (Amy). " Thy guardian oaks, my country, are thy boast." 



Silver Maple (Kate). " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees." 



Butternut (Burke). "The oak for grandeur, strength and noble size, excels all trees 

 that in the forest grow." 



Black Walnut (Frank). "Tall oaks from little acorns grow." 



Buttonwood (Harrison). 



" Woodman, forbear thy stroke ! 



Cut not its earth-bound ties; 

 Oh, spare that aged oak, 



Now towering to the skies ! " 



Sassafras (Henry)- 



" Behold yon oak. 

 How stern he frowns." 



Pepperidge (Walter). " The glory of the woods." 

 Buckeye (Samuel). 



" Proud monarch of t'.ia forest ! 



That once, a sapling bough, 

 Didst quail far more at evening's breath 



Than at the tempest now. 

 Strange scenes have passed, long ages roll'd 



Since first upon tny stem, 

 Then weak as osier twig, spring set 

 Her leafy diadem." 



Red Oak (Lulu). I begin'to feel my pride rising and hope White Oak will give me a 

 chance to quote a poem written in honor of one of our family. 

 White Oak (Bows). 

 Red Oak. 



" A glorious tree is the old gray oak.'' 



(From " The Oak " by Geo. Hill. See Index ) 



Scarlet Oak (Otto). That poem which Red Oak quoted reminded me of an old 

 saying of Dr. Holmes: He says : " I wonder if you ever thought of a single mark of 

 supremacy which distinguishes this tree from those around it? The others shirk the 

 work of resisting gravity, the Oak defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its 

 limbs so that their whole weight may tell, and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet 

 so that the strain may be mighty enough to be \vorth resisting. You will find that in 

 passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches of the Weeping Willow to 

 the extreme upward inclination of those of the Poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle. 

 At ninety degrees the Oak stops short ; to slant upward another degree would mark 

 infirmity of purpose ; to bend downwacd weakness of organization.'' 



I want to tell you some- 



Black Oak (Ruby). What the Oak said sounds scientific. I want to tell you som 

 ing that begins with "once upon a time." Once upon a time the devil agreed with 



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