Section 40. England’s⁠ Trees

The principal native⁠ trees are the⁠ oak, ash, elm, poplar, aspen, birch, larch, alder, hawthorn, hazel, and willow. The beech, maple, horse-chestnut⁠, Spanish chestnut⁠, walnut⁠, sycamore, acacia, weeping willow, cedar, and Lombardy poplar have been introduced.

The moist climate of⁠ England is⁠ eminently suited to the growth of⁠ forest-trees, and we find that in ancient times the larger part of the country presented one⁠ vast scene of forest, as⁠ the⁠ uncleared districts of America do now. The⁠ few scattered patches of natural wood which remain, show⁠ what was once the character of nearly the whole country.—Hewitt, Physical Geography of England and Wales.

See S. 14, N. 3.

einheimisch.

die Eiche. The article is repeated in this passage only when the subsequent noun is of different gender or number from the preceding one.

die Roßkastanie.

die echte Kastanie.

der Wallnußbaum.

Englands.

to be suited to a thing, einer Sache zu´träglich sein; eminently, außerordentlich, which place before ‘zuträglich’.

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 objects.

one — forest = an almost uninterrupted scene of forest, Waldlandschaft, f.

as ... do now, wie noch jetzt.

die ungelichteten Waldgegenden.

The — remain, Die wenigen zerstreut liegenden Überreste natürlicher Gehölze.

Say ‘show the character which formerly belonged almost to the whole country’.