CHARACTER OF BROADLEAF FORESTS 



woods, too, are the favored haunts of 

 the songbh-ds, for here they find the 

 ghnt of sunshine that they so much 

 dehght in. 



A similar warmth of expression be- 

 longs to the leafy woods of other 

 regions. If we compare New Eng- 

 land with Pennsylvania, we shall find 

 that the broadleaf forests of the latter 

 are denser and more continuous, while 

 they are at the same time richer in the 

 variety of trees, shrubs, and other 

 forms of embellishment, which find here 

 a milder air and a richer soil. Spring- 

 time is more luxuriant and replete with 

 happy surprise and change. But while 

 these forests are perhaps more elabo- 

 rate than those of southern New Eng- 

 land, I cannot say that they unpress 

 me as being so homelike and engaging. 

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