TREES GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



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were a tree which bore the 

 necessary and best adapted 

 wood. Sucli is the provision 

 and forethought of nature. 

 The wood of the genus .-Kscu- 

 lus is better than any other for 

 the making of artificial limbs. 

 J. Calif oniica, the California 

 buckeye, is usually a small 

 tree. The accompanying dia- 

 gram was taken from a speci- 

 men that had attained a great size and rounded, compact pro- 

 portions. It bears five leafiets that are slender stalked. 



/^sctilus Ca/i/oruica. 



