"We find our most soothing companionship in trees among which we have 

 lived, some of which we ourselves may have planted. We lean against them and 

 they never betray our trust; they shield us from the sun and from the rain; their 

 spring welcome is a new birth which never loses its freshness, they lay their beau- 

 tiful robes at our feet in autumn; in winter they stand and wait, emblems of patience 

 and of truth, for they hide nothing, not even the little leaf-buds which hint to us 

 of hope 9 the last element in their triple symbolism" DR. O. W. HOLMES 



