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IV 



THE TREE MONTH 



PURELY June is the 

 tree month. At no 

 other time are the 

 leaves so firm, crisp, 

 and green. By this 

 time the trees have 

 gotten the greater part 

 of their annual stretch. 



Few twigs lengthen much after this month, 



though 



the stems may grow stouter. The 

 is, the trees as a class are very provi- 



months of the 

 be storing; up material 



remaining 



truth 



dent. All the 

 summer they will 

 in root and trunk for the quick dart of next 

 spring. Now that the branches have gotten 

 their length, the leaves spread in splendid 

 cascades catching the sun at every possible 

 point. For the whole tree is one great or- 

 ganism stretching out after sunlight. 



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