Tree Song

In the vicinity of the sea, and becoming a tree of about 20…

….and becoming a tree even in the north. All of our species have a peculiar dull bloom in the upper surface of the leaves, which, with the round glandless petioles, distinguishes them..

the prospect of becoming a tree were never brighter

in Alaska, becoming a tree

It is also marked as becoming a tree.

Even so, it will insist on becoming a tree in favourable localities, in which case it will be necessary to resort to root pruning.

…becoming a fair-sized tree: leaves narrowly lanceolate, either obtuse or acute, 1½ to 4 in long…flowers highly coloured, bright red, in very dense clusters

…filaments. With but little training it forms a graceful shrub with many drooping branchlets, eventually becoming a tree under favorable conditions.

…a far handsomer species, partaking in all the excellent qualities of the last, being more hardy, and becoming a beautiful object with its graceful spreading branches, loaded as they usually are, with large round cones.

In the cavity of these cylinders water is sometimes secreted, or less commonly, an opaque white substance becoming opaline when wetted, consisting of a flinty secretion, of which the plant divests

….grows on the northwest coast of North America, and is a small, scrubby, worthless tree.

never becoming a tree.

That my little grain may thus grow, fostered by benevolence, becoming a tree, wherein the mind may expand, and, like the bird, find wings to soar to a higher existence, is the humble hope and prayer…

The freedom of the seed is in the attainment of its dharma, its nature and destiny becoming a tree;

a.emberley, composed from an archival search for the phrase “becoming a tree” on the Hathi Trust website, 2022