Sometimes it seems that to Donald Culross Peattie, author of the 1948 classic, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America, there is not much difference between people and trees. Here’s what he has to say about Eastern hophornbeam: “Everything about this little tree is at once serviceable and self-effacing. Such members of any society are easily overlooked, but well worth knowing.”
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