SECOND CROPS 



TAKE it the year round, the deadest trees in 

 the woods are the livest and fullest of fruit 

 for the naturalist. Dr. Holmes had a passion 

 for big trees ; the camera- carriers hunt up his- 

 toric trees ; boys with deep pockets take to fruit- 

 trees : but dead trees, since I developed a curios- 

 ity for dark holes, have yielded me the most and 

 largest crops. 



An ardor for decayed trees is not from any 

 perversity of nature. There is nothing unrea- 



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