FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



comely and graceful in middle age, 

 rather than beautiful in the ordinary 

 meaning of that word. It is an easy, 

 airy tree. And yet the time comes 

 when it loses its ease and grace, when 

 its trunk grows darker and its boughs 

 become straggly and rough, when it 

 puts on the strength of age without its 

 decrepitude and bears unflinchingly the 

 weight of winter snows. Is it now less 

 interesting than in its youth? I think 

 not. It makes the woods rough and 

 natural, and we admire its simplicity, 

 self-sufficiency, and endurance. 



When young there is no tree with 

 such elegant and yet loose and pretty 

 effects in the foliage, unless it should 

 be one of its western cousins. The 

 spray hangs delicately from the sides 

 of the tree and the top is gracefully 



