Our national parks . he tree, exudes fromthe heart wood on wounds made by fire or theaxe, and forms irregular crisp white candy-likemasses. To the taste of most people it is asgood as maple sugar, though it cannot be eatenin large quantities. No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, willever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine majestic crowns approaching one anothermake a glorious canopy, through the featheryarches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering theneedles and gilding the stately columns and theground into a scene of enchantment. The yellow pine {Pinus ponderosa) is sur-pa
Our national parks . he tree, exudes fromthe heart wood on wounds made by fire or theaxe, and forms irregular crisp white candy-likemasses. To the taste of most people it is asgood as maple sugar, though it cannot be eatenin large quantities. No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, willever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine majestic crowns approaching one anothermake a glorious canopy, through the featheryarches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering theneedles and gilding the stately columns and theground into a scene of enchantment. The yellow pine {Pinus ponderosa) is sur-passed in size and nobleness of port only by itskingly companion. Full-grown trees in the mainforest where it is associated with the sugar pine,are about one hundred and seventy-five feet high,with a diameter of five to six feet, though muchlarger specimens may easily be found. Thelargest I ever measured was a little over eightfeet in diameter four feet above the ground, andtwo hundred and twenty feet high. Where there. YELLOW PINE (YOSEMITE VALLEY FORM) THE FORESTS OF THE YOSEMITE PARK 113 is plenty of sunshine and other conditions arefavorable, it is a massive symmetrical spire,formed of a strong straight shaft clad with innu-merable branches, which are divided again andagain into stout branchlets laden with brightshining needles and green or purple the growth is at all close half or more ofthe trunk is branchless. The species attains itsgreatest size and most majestic form in opengroves on the deep, well-drained soil of lakebasins at an elevation of about four thousandfeet. There nearly all the old trees are over twohundred feet high, and the heavy, leafy, much-divided branches sumptuously clothe the trunkalmost to the ground. Such trees are easilyclimbed, and in going up the winding stairs ofknotty limbs to the top you will gain a most tell-ing and memorable idea of the height, the rich-ness and intricacy of the branches, and the mar-velous abundance and beauty of
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