. Our woodland trees . Trees; Trees. CHAPTER VII. BEAUTY, }^0W ineffectual are our means of expression to convey to the lis- tener or to the reader a sense of all that is comprehended in the beauty of Trees ! We can by our prosaic methods, imperfect though these are, trace the life-history of Tree so far as we can read and under- stand it. We can record and illustrate the systematic workings of Nature. We can explain from our own—a necessarily limited— poiat of view, what has been learnt by patient investigation of the direction and object of natural forces, as exhibited in the plant world —th

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. Our woodland trees . Trees; Trees. CHAPTER VII. BEAUTY, }^0W ineffectual are our means of expression to convey to the lis- tener or to the reader a sense of all that is comprehended in the beauty of Trees ! We can by our prosaic methods, imperfect though these are, trace the life-history of Tree so far as we can read and under- stand it. We can record and illustrate the systematic workings of Nature. We can explain from our own—a necessarily limited— poiat of view, what has been learnt by patient investigation of the direction and object of natural forces, as exhibited in the plant world —though even in our attempts to trace 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 Heath, Francis George, 1843-1913. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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