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FOREST TREES 
TLE beauty of a forest is not simple 
in character, but is due to many 
separate sources. The trees contribute 
much ; the shrubs, the rocks, the mosses, 
play their part; the purity of the air, 
the forest silence, the music of wind in 
the trees—these and other influences 
combine to produce woodland beauty 
and charm. A first consideration, how- 
ever, should be to know the beauty that 
is revealed by the trees themselves. 
Here it will be wise to make a selec- 
tion: to choose out of the great variety 
of our forest flora those trees that most 
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