TREE FORMS IN WINTER 



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though the large growth of the trunk and main limbs helps 

 to conceal the sinuousness of the boughs ; and the most 

 magnificent plane has little of the tense strength of the oak, 



PLANE 



It is pre-eminently a shade-tree, like its relation the syca- 

 more ; but no one thinks first and foremost of the oak's 

 shade. 



