. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. 156 F0RES7 7KEKS. hardwood trees, which seern ever pressing onward, take the tableland— a Benjamin's jwrtion—seeming ever bent on encroar*""-:? on the pine limits, fulfilling their great mission, that of pi for man a more fertile soil, better suited for the operations of .•> iiands and the growth of the life-supporting cereals. The decomposition of the leavts, bark, and woody fibre of the Oak, Basswood, Beech, Maple, Cherry, and other deciduous trees, is in
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. 156 F0RES7 7KEKS. hardwood trees, which seern ever pressing onward, take the tableland— a Benjamin's jwrtion—seeming ever bent on encroar*""-:? on the pine limits, fulfilling their great mission, that of pi for man a more fertile soil, better suited for the operations of .•> iiands and the growth of the life-supporting cereals. The decomposition of the leavts, bark, and woody fibre of the Oak, Basswood, Beech, Maple, Cherry, and other deciduous trees, is in God's kind providence a source of fertility, of the blessings of which min is ultin^ately the recipient. Yet he that receives the gift is often unmindful of the way in which for unnumbered ages it has been jireparing for him, by agents ai)pointed for the work. These unconscious labourers have silently been fulfilling the will of Him " who commandeth and it is ; A noble object is one of our stately forest Pines rising in one uninterrupted column. The grander to the eye as it measures it, for the very simplicity of its outline, and we repeat with the poet:— " Than a tree—a grander chilil earth bears ; Looking upwards, the eye follows its massy shaft rising in solitary majesty -" fit mast for some high admiral;" and such its probable •destiny if chancing to grow in the vicinity of lake or river shore it come within the ken of some adventurous lumberman (your Jean Baptiste has a specially keen eye for a good stick of timber), its fate is sealed. Soon the lonely echoes of the forest are ringmg with the blows of the sturdy axeman on the devoted trunk—and many a vigorous blow is struck before that forest giant inclines its dark-plumed head, and with a rending crash, measures its length upon the groaning and trembling earth. The height of one of these large Pines, varies from a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet in height, and occa
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