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rewarded by healthy trees, perfect-shaped leaves, 

 and a beautiful landscape. As Mr. Kuskin says : 

 "the leaves take all kinds of strange shapes, as if 

 to invite us to examine them. Star- shaped, heart- 

 shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, 

 deft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated, in whorls, in 

 tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly expressive, 

 deceptive, fantastic, never the same from foot of 

 stalk to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt 

 our watchfulness and take delight in outstripping 

 bur wonder." 



Such are the delights to be obtained from the 

 proper and judicious planting of trees, and the 

 aesthetic eye delights in the harmony of colours and 

 the picturesqueness generally. 



To conclude in the words of Meredith : 



" For him the woods were a home and gave him the key 

 Of knowledge, thirst for their treasures in herbs and flowers. 

 The secrets held by the creatures nearer than we 

 To earth he sought, and the link of their life with ours : 

 And where alike we are, unlike where, and the veined 

 Division, veined parallel, of a blood that flows 

 In them, in us, from the source by man unattained, 

 Save mark he well what the mystical woods disclose." 



There is much food for thought and research in 

 every garden, orchard, plantation, wood or forest ; 

 and what a rich harvest there is for the earnest 

 and diligent student of nature ! 



