CHAPTER VII. 
BEAUTY. 
expression to convey to the lis- 
tener or to the reader a sense 
of all that is comprehended in 
the beauty of Trees! We can by 
our prosaic methods, imperfect 
* though these are, trace the life-history of 
a Tree so far as we can read and under- 
stand it. We can record and illustrate 
the systematic workings of Nature. We can 
explain from our own—a necessarily limited— 
point of view, what has been learnt by patient 
investigation of the direction and object of 
natural forces, as exhibited in the plant world 
—though even in our attempts to trace the 
