Some of all of these compounds may be stored 
away for use during the renewal of growth the 
following spring. 
THE GENEROSITY OF TREES 
What does this mean to the average man? It 
means that a tree is perhaps the most economical 
thing that a person can invest in. For a tree gives 
many advantages to a man but takes nothing 
from him. 
WHAT A TREE GIVES 
What does a tree give? A tree gives shade in 
the summer time. The leaves in their function of 
catching the sunlight to manufacture food, create 
naturally a green canopy under which different 
degrees of shade are found. This is a free gift. 
A tree or a row of trees offers protection from 
prevailing winds by shielding a building, a ground 
or a field by its thick foliage attached to a grow- 
ing natural support, the trunk and branches. This 
also is a free gift. 
A tree or a row of them, in the same way, 
creates an obstruction to the sight, thus giving its 
owner increased privacy. Another free gift. 
How much more superior to a stone wall are 
these values, for a wall of stones does not grow 
or repair itself as does a wall of foliage. 
The strong root system of the tree in its search 
for water creates meshes to retain the soil and 
prevent erosion, and this is another gift. 
But perhaps the most important service that 
the tree freely performs is to present its beautiful 
form, its shimmering leaves, its moving branches 
to our sight. For there is a feeling and a sent- 
ment in the aspect of a noble and majestic tree 
that no other object can supply us. And this 1s 
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