II 
FOREST ADORNMENT 
HOUGH there can be no forest 
without trees, it may be asserted 
with equal truth that trees alone would 
make but an incomplete forest.’ Under 
the old trees we find the young sap- 
lings that are in future years to replace 
them and in their turn are to form a 
new canopy of shade. In their com- 
pany is a vast variety of shrubs, ferns, 
and delicate grasses and flowers that 
decorate the forest floor. Vines and 
creepers gather about the old trees 
and clamber up their furrowed trunks. 
In autumn the ground is strewed with 
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