. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1554 Canadian Foii'slry Journal, Fchiuari), U)1H The real breath of the north, where the pine tree thrives, is in that utterance. Parkman, the historian, from in- timate knowledge of winter in the pine woods of the north, actually pictures the scene before one in a few graphic lines, thus: "Lakes and ponds were frozen, rivulets sealed up, torrents encased with stalactites ot ice; the black trunks of the pine- trees were beplastered with snow, and its heavy masses crushed the dull green boughs into the drifts beneath.
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1554 Canadian Foii'slry Journal, Fchiuari), U)1H The real breath of the north, where the pine tree thrives, is in that utterance. Parkman, the historian, from in- timate knowledge of winter in the pine woods of the north, actually pictures the scene before one in a few graphic lines, thus: "Lakes and ponds were frozen, rivulets sealed up, torrents encased with stalactites ot ice; the black trunks of the pine- trees were beplastered with snow, and its heavy masses crushed the dull green boughs into the drifts beneath. The forest was silent as the ; And now: "A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood ; The evergreen forest most appeals to one in the winter, when the de- ciduous trees are bare, resting in the semblance of death; but in the early spring when the sap flows again and life becomes manifest, I turn to the broad-leaved forest for recreation' hope, and the renewal of life in which the very outermost twigs and buds are bathed. All through the sum- mer one can watch the occurring changes: the developing leaves, the maturing fruit, the nesting birds. Even the light is brighter than in the dark evergreen forest. • When au- tumn comes in ^the forest, when the leaves are ''Slain by the arrows of the early frost," nature caps the climax of her scenic glories in the coloring of the dying leaves, so that our last vision and fmal memories of them may be the brightest of the year. To a visitor from the old world, where there is no such autumn coloring as here, the appearance of our scarlet oaks and our maples is un- forgetable. With that other type of trees, the palm and the tree fern, "Steeped in the ; We here have but little. Do you use a Lantern? In School, in College or as a travelling lecturer? The "McIntosh" Stereopticons will meet your ideal of what projection should be. For thirty-nine years Mcintosh l
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