Excerpt from The Songs of the Trees: Pictures, Rhymes and Tree BiographiesOut in the forest, among the trees, lives a family named evergreen.There are big evergreens and little evergreens, and they have big and little relatives over the sea.Every name has a meaning, and this family got its lovely name because of a lovely habit it has, that is, both big evergreens and little evergreens never lose their leaves in the winter, but stand waving their green arms and offering shelter to birds and wild animals when winds blow cold and snow piles high. In winter as well as summer they are ever green.Now just as we have brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and cousins, so this evergreen family is divided into a great many relatives.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.