. Arbor day : its history and observance . exert, the forests are alsopromotive of health. A region of forests, especially if it is elevated, is ahealthful region. So we know what multitudes resort every year to theWhite Mountains of Xew Hampshire, and to the Adirondacks and theCatskills, or to the great forest regions of the South or of the EockyMountains, and how beneficial to health they find them. In whatever asi:)ect, then, we contemplate the forests we see that theyare of the greatest value to us. 46 ARBOR DAY ITS HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE. TREES IN THEIR LEAFLESS As the season for
. Arbor day : its history and observance . exert, the forests are alsopromotive of health. A region of forests, especially if it is elevated, is ahealthful region. So we know what multitudes resort every year to theWhite Mountains of Xew Hampshire, and to the Adirondacks and theCatskills, or to the great forest regions of the South or of the EockyMountains, and how beneficial to health they find them. In whatever asi:)ect, then, we contemplate the forests we see that theyare of the greatest value to us. 46 ARBOR DAY ITS HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE. TREES IN THEIR LEAFLESS As the season for Arbor Day andtree planting comes on, just before thebuds begin to swell and are gettingready to cover the trees with a freshmantle of leaves, it is well—as it is alsowhen the leaves have fallen from thetrees in autumn—to give attention tothe bare trees and notice the character-istic forms of the various species, themanner m which their branches aredeveloped and arranged among them-selves, for a knowledge of these things^ will often enable one to distinguish the , dillerent kinds of trees more readily and certainly than by any other foliage often ser\^es as an obscuring veil, concealing, in part, atleast, the individuality and the x^eculiarities of the trees. But if oneis familiar with their forms of growth—their skeleton anatomy, so tospeak—he will recognize common trees at once with only a partial viewof them. Some trees, as the oak, throw their limbs out from the trunk hori-zontally. As Dr. Holmes says: The others shirk the work of resist-ing grav
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