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regarded as merely a timber tree ; the idea of beauty being falsely 

 dis-associated with things of great utility. The value of its timber 

 has also deprived the country of nearly all the grand specimens 

 which doubtless grew here and there in open ground a century ago, 

 but are now very rare. New England owes a debt of gratitude 

 to the impecunious quality of its elms, which have consequently 

 been left to enrich her villages with their beauty. We had travelled 

 for years through the northern States, and looked in vain to find a 

 single full grown white pine which had developed from youth to 

 maturity in open ground! Fig. 168 is a portrait of one of a very 

 few that we have since seen. It is a magnificent specimen, ninety 

 feet across the spread of its lower branches, and of equal height, 

 found on the old Livingston estate, known as " Montgomery place," 

 the residence of Mrs. C. L. Barton, near Barrytown on the Hudson. 

 An engraving cannot do justice to the softly shaded tuftings of its 



