The importance of plants for bird, beast and man is sufficiently realised even from time immemorial and did not fail to get sufficient attention in any good administration of a country or management of villages. Tree planting, probably obtained the maximum effort during King Asoka's reign and to this day is talked of as having secured the maximum benefit to India. It should be the common experience of everybody to find a stately avenue tree giving shelter to men and beasts that seek protection under it in the burning sun. In this appreciation of service we are getting out of a humble plant life we may miss the several birds and animals that get an equal amount of protection on the tree itself from the rigours of the weather.
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