. The elements of forestry : designed to afford information concerning the planting and care of forest trees for ornament or profit and giving suggestions upon the creation and care of woodlands with the view of securing the greatest benefit for the longest time, particularly adapted to the wants and conditions of the United States. Forests and forestry. The Pines. 321 to great perfection upon the slopes of the Sierras and the transverse ranges that connect the Cascade and Coast Eanges. It does not generally form separate forests, but towers here and there above other and more com- mon kinds,
. The elements of forestry : designed to afford information concerning the planting and care of forest trees for ornament or profit and giving suggestions upon the creation and care of woodlands with the view of securing the greatest benefit for the longest time, particularly adapted to the wants and conditions of the United States. Forests and forestry. The Pines. 321 to great perfection upon the slopes of the Sierras and the transverse ranges that connect the Cascade and Coast Eanges. It does not generally form separate forests, but towers here and there above other and more com- mon kinds, with a symmetry and vigor that has been admired by all travelers. It grows to 300 feet in height and 20 I feet in diameter, although the more common sizes are 200 and 10 feet re- spectively. The branches appear thin and sparse, as compared with the trunk. The leaves are of a dark blue- green. The cones are from 12 to 18 inches long, and proportioned as in our cut (p. 322). The lumber much resem- bles the best of white pine. The resin- ous exudation from partly-burned trees has a sweetish taste, like manna, 155. soaie and seeds of the sugar , . Pine of the natural size, and from this the tree derives its 1308. The lumber is a favorite material for doors, sash, and blinds, and for finishing-lumber generally. The species is named from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, an English botanist, who died in 1842. He was the author of several works of merit, and among them one on the pines. The last edition of the latter, in three volumes, atlas folio (1828-37), ranks among the most costly and elaborate botanical publications ever issued. His herbarium, which â was considered among the best of its kind in Europe, he bequeathed to the British Museum. 1309. The Flexible Pine {Pinus flexUis). This is a middle- sized tree, with warty horizontal branches, found growing in the Eocky Mountains and from New Mexico to Washington Territory. It is the prevailing pine east of the Humboldt Mountains, in
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