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Title: Getting Acquainted with the Trees

Author: J. Horace McFarland

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Getting Acquainted with the Trees

BY

J. HORACE McFARLAND

_Illustrated from Photographs by the Author_

NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914

Copyright, 1904

By The Outlook Company

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Published April, 1904

Reprinted April, 1904

New edition September, 1906

Reprinted August, 1913 March, 1914.

Foreword

These sketches are, I fear, very unscientific and unsystematic. They
record the growth of my own interest and information, as I have recently
observed and enjoyed the trees among which I had walked unseeing far too
many years. To pass on, as well as I can, some of the benefit that has
come into my own life from this wakened interest in the trees provided
by the Creator for the resting of tired brains and the healing of
ruffled spirits, as well as for utility, is the reason for gathering
together and somewhat extending the papers that have brought me, as they
have appeared in the pages of "The Outlook," so many letters of
fellowship and appreciation from others who have often seen more clearly
and deeply into the woods than I may hope to.

Driven out from my desk by weariness sometimes--and as often, I confess,
by a rasped temper I would fain hide from display--I have never failed
to find rest, and peace, and much to see and to love, among the common
and familiar trees, to which I hope these mere hints of some of their
features not always seen may send others who also need their silent and
beneficent message.

J. H. McF.

_March 17, 1904_

Contents
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A STORY OF SOME MAPLES 1

THE GROWTH OF THE OAK