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Show Some Trees Young at 50 Leaves of some trees turn red in autumn, au-tumn, as those of many maples and sumachs; I lie leaves of other trees, as the ash and tulip tree, turn yellow. Some trees have leaves so large that you could wrap one about you like a . robe, says "Forest Facts for Schools." I .Others have leaves hardly larger than your little linger nail. Some trees have I wood so soft you can tear it apart in your hands and so light that it floats like cork ; others have wood so hard no nail can pierce It and so heav. It sinks in water like a stone. In age. too, i trees differ tremendously. Some, like 1 the aspens, are old trees when they j have reached forty or fifly years, while 1 others at that age are youngsters just , getting a start. |