THE NATIVE TREES OF RHODE ISLAND. 
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This young forest, now a delight to the eye, and a valuable 
woodland, was started under conditions apparently most un- 
favorable. But nature, aided by intelligence and faith, has 
achieved a success which should stimulate every owner of a 
“ waste” acre of ground, by the shore or elsewhere, in Rhode 
Island, to a well-planned trial in this kind of improvement. 
