Show dead leaves decompose make good top dressing leaves ferment with a very gentle heat and provide a mild top dressing fertilizer which does not coax tree roots to the surface as might other soll soil enriching substances but they do keep the soll in sufficiently good 1 to encourage seed germination and the growth of young trees and let us not forget says a writer in the montreal herald that they have done good borki every leaf has played its part in producing timber growth from air sun rain and wind it has gathered wood making as well as tree breathing material along tiny liny channels not to be seen by the naked eye it passes its garnered matter through its stem to a supporting twig which sends it along from branch to branch and from branch to tree trunk in the process combining with the products of other leaves and canals to be digested and transformed into sapwood a enriching the trunk ring by ring next year the succeeding ring will enclose this years growth by its embracing pressure hardening it it and adding to the circumference of the trunk which Is the final purpose of the living existence of every single leaf that lives its useful life between winter and winter |