. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. THE WOODS. 153 in their old age were not divided. If, too, in a dense thicket of growth, one branch shall closely press against another, by the constant rubbing and scarifying of the bark by the wind and the consequent irritating stimulus toward a bulging of the bark at the wound, trees of the same species will rarely join their arms together, twin- like, thus singularly uniting themselves into one tree, but I have never seen the cicatrix completed with trees of a dif- ferent sap. I know of a row
. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. THE WOODS. 153 in their old age were not divided. If, too, in a dense thicket of growth, one branch shall closely press against another, by the constant rubbing and scarifying of the bark by the wind and the consequent irritating stimulus toward a bulging of the bark at the wound, trees of the same species will rarely join their arms together, twin- like, thus singularly uniting themselves into one tree, but I have never seen the cicatrix completed with trees of a dif- ferent sap. I know of a row of great elms, planted in memory of a Revolutionary soldier, in whose sides large iron staples were driven, with rings in them, for the hitching of horses; and these have now altogether been enmeshed within the trees, a few eyes, or dents, in the bark being the only external indication of their presence. Perhaps you will come across in your work an old fire scar at the butt of a tree, now healed over by the slow process of the rings, pretty well covered by the newer growth and well hidden from the outside, and yet showing that some one had been there years ago,. ALONG THE Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Huston, Paul Griswold. Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham; New York, Eaton and Mains
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