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HISTORIC TREES Alexander Smith 206 



THE OAK James Russell Lowell 208 



A TRUE NOBLEMAN Washington Irving 209 



THE OAK John Dryden 210 



THE TREE B. Bjb'rnson 210 



THE FAUN Richard Hovey 21 1 



IN THE HEMLOCKS John Burroughs 212 



ENGLISH WOODS AND AMERICAN . John Burroughs 214 



NATURE H. D. Thoreau 215 



THE LITTLE LEAF . . . Henry Ward Beech er 216 



THE TREE THAT TRIED TO GROW . Francis Lee 218 



How TO MAKE A WHISTLE Anonymous 220 



THE FOREST H. D. Thoreau 220 



LIFE'S FOREST TREES . . Ella Wheeler Wilcox 221 



WOOD Julia E. Rogers 222 



THE HOLLY-TREE Robert Southey 222 



A DISCOURSE ON TREES . . . Henry Ward Beecher 224 



FOREIGN LANDS .... Robert Louis Stevenson 235 



THE POPULAR POPLAR . Blanche Willis Howard 236 



THE BEECH TREE'S PETITION . Thomas Campbell 237 



WOOD-SONG Josephine Preston Peabody 238 



THE WIND IN THE PINES . . . Madison Cawein 239 



To A MAPLE SEED Lloyd Mifflin 239 



SUNRISE Sidney Lanier 240 



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A HAPPY THOUGHT .... Henry Ward Beecher 245 



FLOWERS John Milton 245 



PLANTS AND FLOWERS John Ruskin 246 



SEEKING THE MAYFLOWER . . . .E.G. Stedman 247 



