124 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
depths of a wooded valley. From this leafy 
hollow the eye, following a westward line, may 
take in a glorious mass of noble Trees, which 
stretch on and on into the far distance. Their 
forms are first clearly defined, as their broad 
heads of verdure are lifted to the sky, gilded 
at their crests by the golden rays of the 
glorious sun—shadows nestling where the foliage 
of individual Tree-heads rounds towards the fork 
of the branches. Then, as the distance increases, 
the Tree heads are blended into one dark-green 
mass of foliage, as the woodlands stretch away 
against the sky, and form their own horizon. 
