. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAGNOLIA FAMILY the weak. All trees that live in the forest learn this lesson, and this is the explanation of the well-known fact that in or- der to find out what the actual typical form of a tree really is, one must see it growing alone with ample space to develop after the law of its nature. No tree shows the difference between free life and torest. Trunk of the Cucumber-tree. life more clearly than the Cucumber, for it takes on two dis- tinctly characteristic forms dependent upon its
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAGNOLIA FAMILY the weak. All trees that live in the forest learn this lesson, and this is the explanation of the well-known fact that in or- der to find out what the actual typical form of a tree really is, one must see it growing alone with ample space to develop after the law of its nature. No tree shows the difference between free life and torest. Trunk of the Cucumber-tree. life more clearly than the Cucumber, for it takes on two dis- tinctly characteristic forms dependent upon its location. An individual which has attained its growth in the forest rises straight as a column to the height of thirty, forty, or fifty feet without a branch. When, however, a seedling starts in. a clearing, or a sucker grows up from a decaying stump, the 12. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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