The pine fol/age. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lichens on 
     
     the trees. 
     
    
   
   
    
     uncooth in form. Their foliage is interesting. Five long, needle-shaped leaves 
     
     enclosed in a little involucrum to form a slender brush; a number of these arranged 
     
     round the end of a twig unite in forming a massive brush of foliage. In a young pine 
     
     half a dozen summers from the soil these huge brushes form a striking and pleasing 
     
     feature of its dress. There is a great one, packed with bristles on its summit and all 
     
     round on the extremity of every branch great brushes adorn it on every side. In this 
     
     regular disposition of its needled foilage a young pine amid the scrubb of a barren 
     
     looks more like some exotic plant than an embrio forest tree. 
     
    

    
     There are humbler plants in winter, too, that retain all their summer freshness. 
     
     The lichens are perannialy verdant. There they are right before you hung thick on the 
     
     bole of every tree, like florid ornaments wreathed round sculptured columns. Their 
     
     colours are infinite. Grey, yet not a dull, cold grey, but softened with amber or 
     
     emerald, or purple or brown so as to make soft and pleasing tints. Then there is olive 
     
     and rich brown and full emerald and dashes of blood red. And their forms are 
     
     endless. Lying close to the smooth bark of the beech, staining it with streakings of 
     
     shade, hanging in dense festoons on the shaggy limbs of the birch, weaving rich 
     
     waving masses of brown on the maples, or hanging in great grey beards from the dark 
     
    
   
   
    
     limbs of the firs. And they bear their bright—coloured shields through all the winter 
     
     snows. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1. SOME OTHER REFERENCES TO THE FOREST: 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 June 1870: Leaves of birches, aspens, maples emerging. 10 Sept. 1872: Autumn colouring. 1 June 
     
     1876: Spring foliage on trees. 2 July 1877: Beechmast very abundant. 11 Sept. 1877: Autumn 
     
     colouring. 1 June 1879: Spring leafing of trees. 14 July 1879: The forest in summer. 12 July 1880: 
     
     Brief ’vignette’ of the forest at Canoe Cove. 22 Oct. 1881: Beechmast plentiful. 25 Dec. 1881: Cutting 
     
     in a growth of tall beeches, jay eating beechmast. 
     
    
   
   
    
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