FOREST TREES 
some northern park by the elegant 
forms of its spirelike growth. It rises 
high and erect, a narrow pyramid 
clothed in the lightest green foliage. 
The latter is composed of delicate fea- 
thers of little elliptical leaves that hang 
drooping among the finely interwoven 
short branches. This is in its culti- 
vated northern home, where it seems to 
thrive well on the carefully kept green- 
sward. But in reality it is a tree of 
deep swamps, seeking the dank, flooded 
shores of southern rivers, or impene- 
trable morasses, where few other trees 
can live. Here we may paddle our 
boat through the strange-looking cy- 
press knees that it sends up above the 
water from the roots in the muddy soil 
beneath, and may admire the straight, 
firm trunks that are ridged and but- 
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