. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . And now, my dears, I thinkwe have had trees enough for to-day ; thenext time you come I will tell you about theelms and three or four other trees : after that,we shall have nothing left but the differentkinds of pine and cedar, a very large family :and when we have finished them we shallhave done with the trees of the UnitedStates. Uncle Philip, before we go will you havethe goodness to tell me one thing ? I haveoften seen weeping willows carved upon tombsand grave-stones; why is that done,
. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . And now, my dears, I thinkwe have had trees enough for to-day ; thenext time you come I will tell you about theelms and three or four other trees : after that,we shall have nothing left but the differentkinds of pine and cedar, a very large family :and when we have finished them we shallhave done with the trees of the UnitedStates. Uncle Philip, before we go will you havethe goodness to tell me one thing ? I haveoften seen weeping willows carved upon tombsand grave-stones; why is that done, do youknow, sir ? It is for the same reason that the name 204 CONVERSATIONS. of Aveeping willow has been given to people are very much afflicted, theydroop, and seem to be, as it were, weigheddown with sorrow: the branches of theweeping willow hang drooping towards theground; and their appearance, to a fancifuleye, has something of the character of mourn-ing ; and therefore the tree is represented upontomb-stones as an emblem of the grief occa-sioned by the death of relatives or The White Pine. CONVERSATION VITI. Uncle Philip and his little Friends continuetheir Conversation about Trees; he tellsthem of the different kinds of Elm^ andLime^ and of the numerous Family of thePines ; and of a vast Trough that was madeonce in Switzerland^ reaching from the topof a Moujitain to a Lake nine miles dis-tant. Uncle Philip, we have come to claimyour promise about the elms, if you please. Certainly, my dear children ; you know-that nothing pleases me more than telling youwhatever I know that is useful. In Europe, theelm is considered one of the most valuabletrees of the forest: second only to the oak,which it almost equals in size. In France,there are a few very old elms that were plantednearly three hundred years ago, and are nownearly ten feet thick, and a hundred feet high ;but these are uncommonly large. The general 208 CONVERSATIONS ON THE height is about seventy fe
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