Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
grouping will assist the memory in recalling the species. 
Summarized, the classification is as follows: 
Deciduous Trees: non-amentaceous: 
Ornamental Flowering 2.0... -3 2s 254255 see 44 
friconspicuous Wlowermg: . 22... -..- =... 222s 41 
Deciduous Trees: amentaceous : 
Wat-iraited 920 P2028 SLUR Ml 29 
Seed-tritten Gusee eo hind ae 2 URL ee ee 29 
Evergreen Trees: icone-bearing . 2. ....: - 2-2. - eae 20 
The characteristics of all these species will receive 
attention in other chapters. 
Botanists, in their eagerness to get the name of a 
plant, seldom pay any regard to the leaf, except as it 
helps to identify the species; generally they hardly stop 
to admire even the blossom (if there be any left after 
pulling several to pieces to find the structure). Money- 
misers are not the only misers; botanists are misers, in 
their mad haste to add another and another to their 
growing list of species, taking no real enjoyment in 
what they have already accumulated. This is no slan- 
der; I have been a botanist, and know the fever of ac- 
quisition. 
A leaf is the whole tree in miniature: stem, midrib, 
lateral veins and veinlets—the leaf’s skeleton—are mi- 
nute copies of trunk, branch, and twig, and the chloro- 
phyllis the foliage. This is one of the unities of nature, 
showing the massive elm and its tiniest leaf modelled 
alike. Of all the variable features of a leaf none con- 
tributes so much to the beauty of foliage as the fringing 
of its edge, as in the maple, birch, and elm, which in the 
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