CHARACTER OF BROADLEAF FORESTS 
woods, too, are the favored haunts of 
the songbirds, for here they find the 
glint of sunshine that they so much 
delight in. 
A similar warmth of expression be- 
longs to the leafy woods of other 
regions. If we compare New Eng- 
land with Pennsylvania, we shall find 
that the broadleaf forests of the latter 
are denser and more continuous, while 
they are at the same time richer in the 
variety of trees, shrubs, and other 
forms of embellishment, which find here 
a milder air and aricher soil. Spring- 
time is more luxuriant and replete with 
happy surprise and change. But while 
these forests are perhaps more elabo- 
rate than those of southern New Eng- 
land, I cannot say that they impress 
me as being so homelike and engaging. 
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