FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
— according to the nature of their en- 
vironment. They clothe the tree in 
profusion, but do not hidé the beauty 
of the ramification of its branches. In 
truth, they are not devoid of beauty 
themselves. It was natural for Lowell 
to exclaim,— 
A little of thy steadfastness, 
Rounded with leafy gracefulness, 
Old oak, give me. 
While the leaves of the white oak do 
not deflect and curve as much in their 
growth as those of some of the more 
graceful and elegant trees, they never- 
theless fall into natural and pleasing 
groups, unfolding a pretty variation as 
they work out their patient spiral as- 
cent, leaf after leaf, round the stemlet; 
showing achangefulness in the sizes of 
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