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IN preceding chapters of this series I have 

 treated of trees in a relationship of family, 

 or according to some noted similarity. 

 There are, however, some trees of my acquain- 

 tance of which the family connections are 

 remote or unimportant, and there are some 

 other trees of individual merit with the fam- 

 ilies of which I am not sufficiently well ac- 

 quainted to speak familiarly as a whole. Yet 

 many of these trees, looked at by themselves, 

 are as beautiful, interesting, and altogether 

 worthy as any of which I have written, and 

 they are also among the familiar trees of 

 America. Therefore I present a few of them 

 apart from the class treatment. 



One day in very early spring — or was it 

 very late in winter? — I walked along the old 

 canal road, looking for some evidence in tree 

 growth that spring was really at hand. Buds 



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