Trees and tree drawing; . sV-r^ ?. ^Sr^r^^-v^-^^ ,-. ^rA.!:5. TREES AND TREE DRAWING. 87 The Beech {Fagits sylvatica) is, perhaps, the next mostimportant tree of this group, it being native, verycommon in our landscape, and growing in most placeswhere the Oak grows, though it has not (juite so widean area. It is very commonly planted as a nurse treefor the Oak, but it is well known that if it be not cutin time, but is left to grow with the Oaks, the woodwill soon become pure Beech. There are two reasonsfor this. Nothing will grow in the shade of theBeech, and the Beech roots being shallow and
Trees and tree drawing; . sV-r^ ?. ^Sr^r^^-v^-^^ ,-. ^rA.!:5. TREES AND TREE DRAWING. 87 The Beech {Fagits sylvatica) is, perhaps, the next mostimportant tree of this group, it being native, verycommon in our landscape, and growing in most placeswhere the Oak grows, though it has not (juite so widean area. It is very commonly planted as a nurse treefor the Oak, but it is well known that if it be not cutin time, but is left to grow with the Oaks, the woodwill soon become pure Beech. There are two reasonsfor this. Nothing will grow in the shade of theBeech, and the Beech roots being shallow and spread-ing, absorb all the moisture and food of the soilbefore it can sink to the deeper roots of the stem of the Beech (see Fig. 3) is covered withsmooth grey bark; it spreads out towards its baseto its shallow lateral roots (see Fig. 1), and in theopen branches fairly low down. Its branches havean upward tendenc}^, though the ends of them maydroop slightly, especially the lower branches, which,if there be no cattle or other animal to injure them,w
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