Flowers of the pin-oak 



are shading the homes of the wise men who 

 planted them in youth, and they might well 

 adorn our parks and avenues in place of many 

 far less beautiful and permanent trees. With 

 ordinary care, and in good soil, the pin-oak 

 grows rapidly, and the characteristic spreading 

 habit and the slightly down-drooping branches 

 are always attractive. In its age it has not 

 the ruggedness of its kin, though it assumes 

 a stately and somewhat formal habit, and, I 



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