FOREST TREES 
trasting with the quieter tones of alders 
and willows. 
We may speak of brilliancy and 
color in our leafy woods at the ebb- 
tide of the year; but to know their 
beauty well we must walk among the 
trees. Nor can pictures tell us all the 
truth about the tints of autumn. How 
should we receive from. them the at- 
mospheriec effects that nature gives, 
and the indescribable blending and 
softening that comes from innumerable 
rays of diffused and reflected light? 
The beauty also changes from day to 
day and from hour to hour, for weeks. 
Some of the other broadleaf trees 
deserve to be noticed, though in less 
detail, as objects of beauty in the forest. 
The honey locust, one of our largest 
trees of this class, is distinguished 
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