. Louisiana special days. Programs and suggestions for observing the same. Session 1909-10. as the peculiar shape, the broad base andcurving waist, that made this tree so strong. He went away,and in 1759 the new Eddystone Lighthouse was built, broad atthe base and sloping upward like the trunk of the oak tree;and it stands firm to this day.—Mrs. Dyson. THE PINE TREE. The tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and moulds thelife of a race. The pine shadows rest upon a nation. Thenorthern peoples, century after century, lived under one orother of the two great powers of the pine and the sea, bothi
. Louisiana special days. Programs and suggestions for observing the same. Session 1909-10. as the peculiar shape, the broad base andcurving waist, that made this tree so strong. He went away,and in 1759 the new Eddystone Lighthouse was built, broad atthe base and sloping upward like the trunk of the oak tree;and it stands firm to this day.—Mrs. Dyson. THE PINE TREE. The tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and moulds thelife of a race. The pine shadows rest upon a nation. Thenorthern peoples, century after century, lived under one orother of the two great powers of the pine and the sea, bothinfinite. They dwelt amidst the forests as they wandered onthe waves, and saw no end of any other horizon. Still thedark, green trees, or the dark, green waters, jagged the dawnwith their fringe, or their foam. And whatever elements ofimagination, or of warrior strength, or of domestic justice,were brought down by the Norwegian or the Goth, against thedissoluteness or degradation of the south of Europe, weretaught them under the green roofs and wild peneralia of thepine.—John CYPRESS TREE ANDCYPRESS KNEES. WHAT TREES DO. Trees are among the mostcommon things in nature. Theyeither cover or have covered alarge part of the earths surfacethat is suitable for human are the natural friends ofman, yet we often treat themwith scant courtesy, and some-times regard them as of littleuse, if not our actual us study together a shortand easy chapter in the openbook of nature, and learn someof the things that trees do. Trees, like animals, are livingthings, but there are differencesbetween them. Trees do not eat,move or feel; animals do. (24) We know that animals grow or become larger. This is dueto the food they eat. Trees also grow, but they use differentfood, and take it in quite a different way. They live uponmineral matter, that is, air, water and soil, which they changeinto their own substance. By this gradual addition of newmaterial, trees become large
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