112 CONE-BEARING TREES. 
CHAP TER: EX, 
CONE- BEARING TREES — THEIR PECULIARITIES — GIGANTIC 
TREES OF CALIFORNIA — LOCALITIES MOST FAVORABLE TO 
THE GROWTH OF EVERGREENS — WHITE PINE— YELLOW 
PINE—LONG-LEAVED PINE—BLACK, WHITE, AND HEMLOCK 
SPRUCE — SILVER FIR— LARCH — CYPRESS — DURABILITY 
OF CYPRESS WOOD —THE CEDAR OF LEBANON. 
K. have spoken in a previous chap- 
ter of the effect produced upon a 
landscape by the variety observ- 
able in the different trees, both 
as to their outline and the cha- 
racter of their foliage. We will 
,) now notice a few of a class which perhaps, 
™ above all we have mentioned, exert a great 
influence in beautifying the face of the earth. 
v9 They form by themselves a separate group 
or family known to botanists as the Conifera, or Cone- 
bearing trees, and their peculiar appearance will 
at once distinguish them from others. They are 
mostly evergreens, and their foliage consists of long, 
narrow cylindrical leaflets, thickly scattered around 
the stem, as in the various species of Pine, or of 
short, flat, and prickly appendages, arranged in a 
double row, one on each side of the stem, as may be 
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