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from a marketable centre to give it any special value as a pulp 

 wood. It is employed to some extent for shingles and the bark is 

 used for roofing purposes. Incense is also obtained from the 

 tree. Wallich's name of Pinus decidua was given on account of 

 the early fall of the leaves from broken or cut branches. 



Fig. 115.— TSUGA BRUNONIANA. 



a, spray ; 6, pubescent upper side of shoot with winter buds ; c, glabrous under-side of shoot and 



leaf ; d, section of leaf. 



Its cultivation in Britain is restricted, owing to its being 

 tender. Good specimens are occasionally seen in the milder parts 

 of the country and there is one 50 ft. or more high at Bocconoc, 

 Cornwall. It should be grown more in gardens in the south-west 

 counties of England, for it is a very beautiful tree. 



R. S. Troup, The Silviculture of Indian Trees, iii, 1155 (1921). 



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