GETTING AC^AINTED WITH THE TREES 



always sorry not to go more fully into proper 

 and scientific tree knowledge. At times my 

 lack in this respect has made me ashamed to 

 have written at all upon trees ; but with full 

 gratitude to the botanical explorers whose 

 labors have made such superficial observations 

 as mine possible, I venture to send forth 

 these sketches, without pretension as to the 

 statement of any new facts or features. 



If anything I have here set down shall 

 induce among those who have looked and read 

 with me from nature's open book the desire 

 to go more deeply into the fascinating tree 

 lore that always awaits and inevitably rewards 

 the effort, I shall cry heartily, "God -speed!" 



Berries of the spice- bush 



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