POBEST TREES 



Our common chestnut is of less 

 economic value than the oak, but one 

 suggests the other, for the two are 

 often found together and are similar in 

 size and habit. The chestnut is, in 

 truth, one of our finest deciduous trees. 

 It has a luxuriance of healthy, dark- 

 green foliage, and is happy-looking in 

 its abundance of yellow-tasseled blos- 

 soms. It is even more beautiful in 

 August, when the young burs mingle 

 their even tinge of brown with the 

 fresh green of the glossy leaves. In 

 old age it has the same firmness that 

 is so noticeable in the oak, and seems 

 to be just as regardless of the winds 

 and gales. 



The character of the leaf and the 

 manner in which the branches of a tree 

 divide and ramify have so much to do 

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