Excerpt from Trees in Prose and PoetryTrees, in their literary aspect, have as yet found small place in the nature books of to - day, but with the increasing amount of tree study in our common schools there is need of a collection of tree stories and poems. In the compilation of this little book the aim has been to present in the form of a supplementary reader for advanced grades the best litera ture, legendary, historical, and fanciful, that has been inspired by our common trees.Such a book may well have a place in every schoolroom. Where nature study is taught, the selections may be used as supplementary material, where nature study is as yet unattempted, an intelligent study of the selections must inspire the children with a love for the trees and a desire to know them better.There is no result of nature study that does so much to transform well-known scenes as a knowledge of the trees, and an important aid to this larger vision is familiarity with the thoughts of the great writers on these most majestic specimens of the plant world.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.