Trees that every child should know : easy tree studies for all seasons of the year . een sticks whenburning. The sap is quite as sweet as that ofmaple trees, but one is soon surfeited in eatingthe candy-like substance. The stage driver told me that a lumbermancould cut $5,000 worth of lumber from one ofthese sugar pine trees. No wonder they thinkthat it is a burning shame for the governmentto reserve these noble woods of the Yosemitetract just to be looked at. Fortunately forus, and for the people of the whole country, somethousands of acres of magnificent forest arereserved on those Western m
Trees that every child should know : easy tree studies for all seasons of the year . een sticks whenburning. The sap is quite as sweet as that ofmaple trees, but one is soon surfeited in eatingthe candy-like substance. The stage driver told me that a lumbermancould cut $5,000 worth of lumber from one ofthese sugar pine trees. No wonder they thinkthat it is a burning shame for the governmentto reserve these noble woods of the Yosemitetract just to be looked at. Fortunately forus, and for the people of the whole country, somethousands of acres of magnificent forest arereserved on those Western mountain slopes, wherethey are safe from the lumbermans axe. Ifwe cannot go to see them this year, perhaps wecan fifty years hence. They will still be standing,still growing, these noble remnants of the grand-est forests of any country. Specimens of whatMr. John Muir calls the largest, noblest, andmost beautiful of all the seventy or eighty speciesof pine trees in the world. THE NUT PINES A group of soft pines, with fewer needles tha**five in a bundle, grows on the Western mountam. ? 1; f1 ?$ i hi is ; i! 1 1 ,;~ | m,mm«i«iii **~^Tt** ^Sa**1^ t^^y^^t 1 U i 1 ,.. *.< M f&^^f vgps In these tall white pine trees Nathaniel Hawthorne built an out-door study, where he wrote undisturbed The Nut Pines 115 slopes. Small trees they are, which have tostruggle hard against the winds and storms, andwith the scant moisture of the desert air andsoil for a bare living. They are very interestingbecause of the fact that they have nuts, rich,sweet, and nutritious, under the scales of theircones, and these nuts are important items in thefood of many Indian tribes of the West. The first is the four-leaved nut pine thatgrows on the barren mountain slopes of Southernand Lower California. It is a desert tree, rarelyreaching forty feet in height, and this only inthe most favourable situations. The foliage ispale sage green. No other pine has four leavesin a bundle. Its nut-like seeds are rich in oi
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