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Burr Oak.— Every particle of him is useful, even to his ashes. His bark is used for 
tanning leather; his wood is hard, compact, heavy, tough and durable, good for heavy 
wagons, plows, railroad ties, fence posts, ship timber, furniture, and finishing the interior 
of houses. 
Swamp White Oak (Leona).— As much of my timber is so nearly like that of White 
Oak, and often passes for it, I will say, as a tree, “I am beautiful in every stage of my 
•growth; at first, light, slender, delicate and waving; at last, broad, massive and grand, 
ibut always graceful.” 
Chestnut Oak (James).— Emerson says of White Oak: “ As an ornament to the land¬ 
scape, or as a single object, no other tree is to be compared with it, in every period of 
■ its growth, for picturesqueness, majesty, and inexhaustible variety of beauty. When 
: standing alone it throws out its mighty arms with an air of force and grandeur which have 
made it everywhere to be considered the fittest emblem of strength and power of resist- 
.ance. Commonly the oak braves the storm to the last, without yielding, better than any 
-other tree. The limbs go out at a great angle and stretch horizontally to a vast distance.” 
Laurel Oak (John).— The famous A. J. Downing said: “ There are no grander or more 
superb trees than our American oaks. We are fully disposed to concede it the first rank 
among the denizens of the forest. As an ornamental object we consider the oak the 
most varied in expression, the most beautiful, grand, majestic and picturesque of all 
deciduous trees.” 
Black Jack Oak (Herbert).—Poetry, history, mythology and romance abound in 
references to the oak. I should like to hear from our fellow trees some common quota¬ 
tions in reference to the oak. 
White Ash (Myrtie).— “ The unwedgeable and gnarled oak.” 
Black Ash (Ella).— “ The old oaken bucket.” 
Sugar Maple (Louise).— “ Jove’s own tree that holds the woods in awful sovereignty.” 
Red Maple (Anna).— “ A goodly oak, whose boughs were mass’d with age.” 
Scarlet Oak (Ben.).— “ King of the woods.” 
Blue Ash (Amy). — “Thy guardian oaks, my country, are thy boast.” 
Silver Maple (Kate).— “ The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees.” 
Butternut (Burke).— “ The oak for grandeur, strength and noble size, excels all trees 
tb.at jin the forest grow.” 
Black Walnut (Frank).— “ Tall oaks from, little acorns grow.” 
Buttonwood (Harrison).— *• 
Sassafras (Henry).— 
' “ Woodman, forbear thy stroke ! 
Gat not. its earth-bound ties; 
--e that aged oak, 
? towering to the skies ! ” 
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“ Behold yon oak, 
How stern he frowns,” 
Pepperidge (Walter).- 
Buckeye (Samuel).— 
iThe glory of the woods.” 
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Red Oak (Lulu).— I begin to feel my pride rising and hope White Oak will give me a 
chance to quote a poem written in honor of one of our family. 
White Oak — (Bows). 
Red Oak.— 
“ A glorious tree is the old gray oak.” 
(From “ The Oak ” by Geo. Hill. See Index ) 
Scarlet Oak (Otto). — That poem which Red Oak quoted reminded me of an old 
saying of Dr. Holmes: He says : “ I wonder if you ever thought of a single mark of 
supremacy which distinguishes this tree from those around it? The others shirk the 
work of resisting gravity, the Oak defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its 
limbs so that their whole weight may tell, and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet 
so that the strain may be mighty enough to be worth resisting. You will find that in 
passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches of the Weeping Willow to 
the extreme upward inclination of those of the Poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle. 
At ninety degrees the Oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark 
infirmity of purpose ; to bend downwacd weakness of organization.” 
Black Oak (Rub)'). — What the Oak said sounds scientific. I want to tell you some¬ 
thing that begins with “once upon a time.” Once upon a time the devil agreed with a 
