FOREST TREES 



trasting with the quieter tones of alders 

 and willows. 



We may speak of brilliancy and 

 color in our leafy woods at the ebb- 

 tide of the year; but to know their 

 beauty well we must walk among the 

 trees. Nor can pictures tell us all the 

 truth about the tints of autumn. How 

 should we receive from them the at- 

 mospheric effects that nature gives, 

 and the indescribable blending and 

 softening that comes from innumerable 

 rays of diffused and reflected light? 

 The beauty also changes from day to 

 day and from hour to hour, for weeks. 



Some of the other broadleaf trees 

 deserve to be noticed, though in less 

 detail, as objects of beauty in the forest. 

 The honey locust, one of our largest 

 trees of this class, is distinguished 

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