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Trees. The climate is highly favorable to the growth of trees; originally most of the land below 1,000 feet (300 meters) must have been covered with forest, but now the area of useful timber is only a small fraction of the whole. Birch and pine were the first trees to creep back after the end of the ice age, followed by the more characteristic deciduous trees. The hard but slow-growing oak is found over most of the islands, while the beech favors the chalky lands of the south. The elm and the ash will grow in most parts; they flourish, self-sown, in the hedges that surround most English fields and are perhaps the most characteristic feature of the countryside.

Origin: Persian from Far East, Angora from Turkey; descended from long-haired manul which is found in mountains of Central Asia and is a strain easily tamed Description: Long, silky fur is characteristic feature; Persians and Angoras have been so interbred that they are now considered as one.

Civil Procedure.—The characteristic feature of the Roman civil procedure during the republican and classical periods was the division of the trial into two stages. In the first stage, before the jurisdictional magistrate, the praetor (in iure), both plaintiff and defendant appeared, the latter summoned orally and extrajudicially by the former.