JUNE. 
215 
out any permanent branches. If the leading shoot of a 
young tree growing alone be broken off, the tree ceases to 
grow much higher^ but sends out many ramifying boughs ; 
but a young forest tree in similar circumstances acts differ- 
ently ; another shoot is sent out;, which .becomes the leader^, 
and carries up the perpendicular^, and this after the tree has 
attained a considerable height and circumference^ as I have 
seen in many instances. It is this circumstance of growing 
MAPLE (Acer Sacchari7ium ) in a clearing/' 
^- There is an apparent incongruity in representing trees naked and leaf- 
less in the middle of June, but the object was to illustrate the mode of 
ramification^ on which the appearance alluded to in the text depends. 
