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scribes them) ; or we may behold that " crystal-frosted 

 pine-tree glistening in the sunshine with innumerable 

 diamonds on a frosty winter morning". 



Yes, all the year round there is something in trees 

 to satisfy this love for the beautiful and give thoughts 

 that "do often lie too deep for tears". 



Trees, then, form an excellent means of Nature- 

 study, and a study of trees is calculated to develop 

 not only our mental and moral faculties, but to pro- 

 mote a taste for the truly beautiful. Moreover, they 

 are with us at all seasons of the year, and a study of 

 trees compels us to leave our class-rooms, our towns 

 and villages, and go where we can make our observa- 

 tions in the pure air, in the healthy breezes, untram- 

 melled and unconfined, beneath the blue canopy of 

 heaven. 



