Section 40. ENGLAND’S[1] TREES.
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Section 40. ENGLAND’S[1] TREES.
The principal native[2] trees are the[3] oak, ash, elm, poplar, aspen, birch, larch, alder, hawthorn, hazel, and willow. The beech, maple, horse-chestnut[4], Spanish chestnut[5], walnut[6], sycamore, acacia, weeping willow, cedar, and Lombardy poplar have been introduced.
The moist climate of[7] England is[8] eminently suited to the growth of[9] forest-trees, and we find that in ancient times the larger part of the country presented one[10] vast scene of forest, as[11] the[12] uncleared districts of America do now. The[13] few scattered patches of natural wood which remain, show[14] what was once the character of nearly the whole country.—Hewitt, Physical Geography of England and Wales.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · See S. 14, N. 3.Note 2 · einheimisch.Note 3 · die Eiche. The article is repeated in this passage only when the subsequent noun is of different gender or number from the preceding one.Note 4 · die Roßkastanie.Note 5 · die echte Kastanie.Note 6 · der Wallnußbaum.Note 7 · Englands.Note 8 · to be suited to a thing, einer Sache zu´träglich sein; eminently, außerordentlich, which place before ‘zuträglich’.Note 9 · Use the gen. of the def. art. The definite article should be used in all cases where an object is individualised or singled out from other oNote 10 · one — forest = an almost uninterrupted scene of forest, Waldlandschaft, f.Note 11 · as ... do now, wie noch jetzt.Note 12 · die ungelichteten Waldgegenden.Note 13 · The — remain, Die wenigen zerstreut liegenden Überreste natürlicher Gehölze.Note 14 · Say ‘show the character which formerly belonged almost to the whole country’.