Trees that every child should know : easy tree studies for all seasons of the year . shall find no difficulty in discovering whitepine trees, even though no forest near us has aspecimen left. It is one of the commonest pinesto be planted in cities and villages. It is theonly five-leaved pine that will grow successfullyon this side of the Rocky Mountains. THE GREAT SUGAR PINE All along the coast mountains from Oregon toLower California, a five-leaved soft pine growswhose size makes our Eastern white pine seemlike a dwarf. In that far country of big trees,it is one of the giants. I .iad
Trees that every child should know : easy tree studies for all seasons of the year . shall find no difficulty in discovering whitepine trees, even though no forest near us has aspecimen left. It is one of the commonest pinesto be planted in cities and villages. It is theonly five-leaved pine that will grow successfullyon this side of the Rocky Mountains. THE GREAT SUGAR PINE All along the coast mountains from Oregon toLower California, a five-leaved soft pine growswhose size makes our Eastern white pine seemlike a dwarf. In that far country of big trees,it is one of the giants. I .iad read of these treeswhich grow to be over 200 feet in height, withtrunks six to ten feet in diameter at the ground,but figures do not give much idea of the first saw the groves of sugar pines miles aheadof us, as the stage climbed the foot hills of theSierra Nevada mountains. We were on the wayinto the wonderful Yosemite Valley. Thescrawny, grey, digger pines, with cones as bigas a mans head, grew on the lower foot came the great yellow pines, and still higher.
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