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brought to perfection, which in time could hardly fail 

 to diminish sorely the numbers of our forest-trees. We 

 usually find in Nature this wonderful fulness of supply ; 

 far more of each kind of growth than may seem to be 



STAMINATE AND PISTILLATE CATKINS OF A WILLOW. 



actually needed, so as to make sure that there will 

 always be enough. 



It means something else that is beautiful. It means 

 that Our Father in Heaven gives with a Royal abundance. 

 He gives like a King. 



Large numbers of our trees depend almost though not 

 quite entirely, for this work of scattering pollen, on the 

 help that is given them by Wind. One curious instance 



