272 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



We must not forget tliat the beauty of Nature 

 confines itself to no rule of limitation : even as " one 

 star differeth from another star in glory," so beauty is 

 made perfect by differences in type — and in Nature 



Old Norwny Pine. 



these are manifold. The pity of it is that so few of 

 us are willing to believe in more than one or two 

 ty]}e8. I will not say, then, that Pinus resinosa is 

 more ornamental than Pinus Strohus, but that the 

 beauty of the former can never be appreciated until 

 the beauty of the latter emphasizes it by contrast. 



