MAGNOLIA FAMILY 



the weak. All trees that live in the forest learn this lesson, 

 and this is the explanation of the well-known fact that in or- 

 der to find out what the actual typical form of a tree really 

 is, one must see it growing alone with ample space to develop 

 after the law of its nature. 



No tree shows the difference between free life and forest 



Trunk of the Cucumber-tree. 



life more clearly than the Cucumber, for it takes on two dis- 

 tinctly characteristic forms dependent upon its location. An 

 individual which has attained its growth in the forest rises 

 straight as a column to the height of thirty, forty, or fifty 

 feet without a branch. When, however, a seedling starts in 

 a clearing, or a sucker grows up from a decaying stump, the 



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