LERE: STORY: OF THE Oak 195 
cold of the winter. Or, if the acorn did not germinate 
in the autumn, it may in the spring. During the first 
few years the tiny 
oak makes little 
growth. A few 


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stem appear. leis Fic. 234. Germinating acorn 
not high enough to ie 
be seen above the grass. Of the many which 
start, but few rise up to saplings. Many, many years 
the oak grows. It gets a foot or so higher each year. 
It is making root, trunk, branches, and each year a 

Fic. 235. Oak trees getting a start. (Photographed in winter.) 

