USUAL GROWTH HABIT OF WHITE-BARKED PINE 
A typical specimen in appearance, but larger than usual. 
The tree stands on what was doubt- 
less once a grave or the site of a small temple; remains of the grave or buildings have 
long since been obliterated by farmers. 
This beautiful pine has been introduced to the 
United States, but appears to lose its white color if it is grown in a moist locality. Photo- 
graph by D. F. Higgins. (Fig. 5.) 
THE WHITE-BARKED PINE 
D. F. Hicerins, Peking, China 
N ONE of my first trips sight-seeing 
around the ‘city. of Peking, when 
almost. anything.new and strange 
was. taken “quite as a matter of 
course, I remember seeing in the enclo- 
sure of “‘Coal Hill’’ some pine trees 
whose snow-white bark shone out from 
their green foliage. I wondered at the 
time why it was that the Chinese 
whitewashed their pine trees. Later, 
however, in excursions into the country, 
I found that my whitewashed pines 
were not whitewashed, but that they 
had a white bark. 
I became interested in this curious 
tree, and later, largely through the 
inspiring acquaintance formed with 
Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer 
of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, I took a number of photo- 
graphs which may be of interest to the 
readers of the JoURNAL OF HEREDITY. 
The tree (Pinus Bungeana) is most 
striking and noble in appearance, and 
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