FOREST TREES 
Our common chestnut is of less 
economic value than the oak, but one 
suggests the other, for the two are 
often found together and are similar in 
size and habit. The chestnut is, in 
truth, one of our finest deciduous trees. 
It has a luxuriance of healthy, dark- 
green foliage, and is happy-looking in 
its abundance of yellow-tasseled blos- 
soms. It is even more beautiful in 
August, when the young burs mingle 
their even tinge of brown with the 
fresh green of the glossy leaves. In 
old age it has the same firmness that 
is so noticeable in the oak, and seems 
to be just as regardless of the winds 
and gales. 
The character of the leaf and the 
manner in which the branches of a tree 
divide and ramify have so much to do 
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