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TREES WITH A PERSONALITY 



Most beautiful 

 Of forest trees The Lady of the Woods. 



COLERIDGE. 



TVJO WHERE are character and personality 

 1*^1 more strikingly illustrated than in the trees. 

 Anybody who is thrown in contact with them at all 

 soon begins to recognise their individual traits and 

 peculiarities. In fact, it is a question whether some 

 trees do not exhibit more pronounced egos than 

 most animals and quite a few men. Each tree has 

 character, meaning, expression and shows a won- 

 derful power of adaptability. 



Despite the fact that to the non-observing all 

 maples may look alike, we all know that the con- 

 tour, shape, branching and leaf arrangement of 

 each are different. They have racial traits in com- 

 mon, but each is greatly differentiated from its 

 neighbour. They are not cast in moulds like clay 

 pigeons. 



Generations of tree longings, aspirations, ambi- 



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