FOREST TREES 
and purer. We need not look up to 
appreciate it, but may watch it on the 
soil, over which it moves in flecks of 
light and dark. 
“The chequer’d earth seems restless as a 
flood 
Brushed by the winds, so sportive is the 
light 
Shot through the boughs; it dances, as 
they dance, 
Shadow and sunshine intermingling 
quick, 
And dark’ning, aud enlight/ning (as the 
leaves 
Play wanton) every part.” 
THE CONE-BEARERS 
The cone-bearing trees are usually 
provided with needle-shaped or awl- 
shaped leaves, in contradistinction to 
the broad and flat ones that belong 
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