. The book of evergreens. A practical treatise on the Coniferæ, or cone-bearing plants. Conifers. THE PINE SUB-FAMILY. 125 the slopes, wlicrc the other pines become mere stunted shrubs. We make the following extracts from Dr. Engelmann's paper in the Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences: "On alpine heights, between 9,200 and 11,800 or 12,000 feet high, on Pike's Peak and the' high mountains of the Snowy Range, Dr. Parry, 1861 and 1802, Messrs. Hall and Harbour, 1862. Also on the heights of the Cooche- topa Pass, nearly south-west of Pike's Peak, (altitude over 10,000 feet,) w
. The book of evergreens. A practical treatise on the Coniferæ, or cone-bearing plants. Conifers. THE PINE SUB-FAMILY. 125 the slopes, wlicrc the other pines become mere stunted shrubs. We make the following extracts from Dr. Engelmann's paper in the Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences: "On alpine heights, between 9,200 and 11,800 or 12,000 feet high, on Pike's Peak and the' high mountains of the Snowy Range, Dr. Parry, 1861 and 1802, Messrs. Hall and Harbour, 1862. Also on the heights of the Cooche- topa Pass, nearly south-west of Pike's Peak, (altitude over 10,000 feet,) where Captain Gunnison discover- ed, in 1853, what seems to be this sj^ecies without fruit, (see Pacific R. R. Rep., H., p. 130); the leaves which I could compare are those of our plant. Flowers end of June and beginning of July. Flourishing best in the higher elevations, and never descending below 9,000 feet, in its lower ranges not ripening its fruits as well as on the bleak heights; this truly alpine species—in this respect our representative of the European P. pumilis—character- izes the highest belt of timber on the peaks of Colorado. On sheltered slopes a tree 40 or 50 feet high and from 1 to 2 feet in diameter, it becomes a stra2:2:linG: bush, prostrate, and almost creej^ing, on the bleak summits of the high ; In allusion to its apparently very slow growth. Doctor Engelmann says: " Its growth, at least in the latter local- ities, is exceedingly slow, as a stick of scarcely more than one inch in diameter, brought back by Dr. Parry, shows nearly fifty annual rings, some of them ^ ^ of a line, and. Fij?. 16.—PINTS Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hoopes, Josiah, 1832-1904. New York : Orange Judd & company
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