The mountains of California . d Nevada it is one of theprincipal timber-trees, great quantities being cutevery year for the mines. The famous White PineMining District, White Pine City, and the WhitePine Mountains have derived their names from it. NEEDLE FINE(Pinus aristata) This species is restricted in the Sierra to thesouthern portion of the range, about the head wa-ters of Kings and Kern rivers, where it forms ex-tensive forests, and in some places accompanies theDwarf Pine to the extreme limit of tree-growth. It is first met at an elevation of between 9000and 10,000 feet, and runs up to 1
The mountains of California . d Nevada it is one of theprincipal timber-trees, great quantities being cutevery year for the mines. The famous White PineMining District, White Pine City, and the WhitePine Mountains have derived their names from it. NEEDLE FINE(Pinus aristata) This species is restricted in the Sierra to thesouthern portion of the range, about the head wa-ters of Kings and Kern rivers, where it forms ex-tensive forests, and in some places accompanies theDwarf Pine to the extreme limit of tree-growth. It is first met at an elevation of between 9000and 10,000 feet, and runs up to 11,000 without seem-ing to suffer greatly from the climate or the lean-ness of the soil. It is a much finer tree than the THE FOllESTS •J17 Dwarf Pine. IiiRtoad of growing iu clumps andlow, heathy mats, it manages in some way to nuiin-tain an erect position, and usually stands the young trees are at all sheltered, theygTow up straight and arrowy, with delicatelytapered bole, and ascending Ijranches terminated. OAK. UHUVVINU AiMONG YfciLLOW Ill^KS. witli glossy, bottlc-hrusii tassels. At middle age,certain lindjs are specialized and ]mslie(l out forthe bearing of cones, after tli(^ the SngarPine; and in old ago these ])ran(lies droop and castnboiil ill every dii-eetioii, giving rise to very |»ii- tures([ue <!ffcts. The ll-llllk becomes tleep brow ll?•iihI i-ongli, like (.f llie Moiiiilaiii Pine, while 218 THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA the young cones are of a strange, dull, blackish-bluecolor, clustered on the upper branches. When ripethey are from three to four inches long, yellowishbrown, resembling in every way those of the Moun-tain Pine. Excepting the Sugar Pine, no tree onthe mountains is so capable of individual expres-sion, while in grace of form and movement it con-stantly reminds one of the Hemlock Spruce. The largest specimen I measured was a littleover five feet in diameter and ninety feet in height,but this is more than t
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