FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
gaining strength, the latter after a 
few years push up their tops between 
the open foliage of their protecting 
“nurses.” The white birch may be seen 
performing this good office in many a 
fire-scarred piece of woodland through- 
out the Northeastern States. Often, 
too, we see it standing a little apart, 
as at the edge of a forest; its slender 
branches drooping around the pure 
white trunk and its agile leaves gleam- 
ing as they wave in the light breeze. 
It is like one of those single notes in 
music that glide into universal harmony 
with irresistible charm. 
The yellow birch, on the contrary, is 
most beautiful in the depth of the for- 
est. It is a large, useful tree. In the 
Adirondacks I have often admired 
its tall, straight trunk as it rose above 
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