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the food of the Berber and in the recently added island of Puerto 
Rico the royal palm serves almost every possible use for the 
inhabitants from the siding of a house to the body of a saddle. 
Trees have long been the subjects of familiar allusion in litera- 
ture; there is no more delightful picture of forest life and forest 
scenery than Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden in “ As you like it” 
and many others besides Shakespeare and the banished duke 
have found “tongues in trees’ and “books in the running 
brooks.” Certain sorts of trees have suggested certain traits of 
character, as the oak of sturdiness, as in the case of the guard in 
Coriolanus who says of his general, “He is the rock, the oak 
not to be wind shaken,”’ or again of toughness, as when the oak 
is mentioned as “‘ unwedgeable,”’ ‘‘ hardest-timbered,” “ gnarled,” 
and as possessing “knotty entrails.’’ To the American poet a 
finer grain of sentiment is aroused by the white pine —“ the mur- 
muring pine,” as in that most touching allusion to the burial of 
Hawthorne on that “hilltop hearsed with pines,’ which marks 
the last resting place of Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, 
whose life-long friend said of it 
“«T only hear above his place of rest 
Their tender undertone, 
The infinite longings of a troubled breast, 
e voice so like his own 
Besides the oak and the pine, the lithe willow, the prickly 
holly, the bearded hemlock, the evergreen magnolia, and the 
spreading beech have all been the subject of the poet’s song. 
The last named tree with its smooth bark yielding so easily to 
the knife has for ages been the lover's tree ; it was surely such a 
beech that Orlando selected as the medium on which to convey 
his thoughts of Rosalind : 
‘* These trees shall be my books 
That every eye, which in this forest looks, 
Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere. 
un, run, Orlando; on every tree, 
The fair, the chaste, the unexpressive she.’’ 
And it was for this offence that the melancholy Jaques begged 
him to ‘‘ mar no more trees with writing love songs on their barks.”’ 
