OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
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The Hite of a Tree. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
¢ TREE, to the thoughtful and loving 
student of Nature, suggests ideas 
of beauty and perfection to which 
the mind cannot be lifted, save by 
a process of wondering admiration. 
The minutest forms of vegetable 
a cannot even discern when the most 
2 vigorous powers of vision are brought 
to bear upon them—open up, under the micro- 
scope, vast fields for inquiry and research; and, 
from these almost infinitesimal points of depar- 
