II 



FOEEST ADORNMENT 



THOUGH there can be no forest 

 without trees, it may be asserted 

 with equal truth that trees alone would 

 make but an incomplete forest.^ Under 

 the old trees we find the young sap- 

 lings that are in future years to replace 

 them and in their turn are to form a 

 new canopy of shade. In their com- 

 pany is a vast variety of shrubs, ferns, 

 and delicate grasses and flowers that 

 decorate the forest floor. Yines and 

 creepers gather about the old trees 

 and clamber up their furrowed trunks. 

 In autumn the ground is strewed with 

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