FOREST TREES 



some northern park by the elegant 

 forms of its spireUke growth. It rises 

 high and erect, a narrow pyramid 

 clothed in the lightest green foliage. 

 The latter is composed of delicate fea- 

 thers of Httle elliptical leaves that hang 

 drooping among the finely interwoven 

 short branches. This is in its culti- 

 vated northern home, where it seems to 

 thrive well on the carefully kept green- 

 sward. But in reality it is a tree of 

 deep swamps, seeking the dank, flooded 

 shores of southern rivers, or impene- 

 trable morasses, where few other trees 

 can live. Here we may paddle our 

 boat through the strange-looMng cy- 

 press knees that it sends up above the 

 water from the roots in the muddy soil 

 beneath, and may admire the straight, 

 firm trunks that are ridged and but- 



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