THE GROTFTH OF THE OAK 



every tree in the forest for its economic value, 

 or by the botanist, with his limp-bound Gray^s 

 Manual in hand. I confess to bewilderment 

 in five minutes after the differences have been 

 explained to me, and I enjoyed, not long ago, 

 the confusion of a skilful nurseryman who was 

 endeavoring to show me his young trees of 

 red oak which the label proved to be scarlet ! 

 But the splendidly effective trees themselves 

 can be fully appreciated, and the distinctions 

 will appear as one studies carefully the features 

 of these living gifts of nature's greenness. 

 The trees wait on one, and once the habit of 

 appreciation and investigation is formed, each 



Acorns of the English oak 



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