268 EVERGREENS. 



Scotch Pine. Is one of the most satisfactory of 

 the coarser kinds and is very easily transplanted. 

 At one time it was considered as a perfect tree for 

 shelter belts, and even for ornament had a place 

 with many. Time, however, has proved it to be 

 less valuable than was supposed. Its fault is in 

 becoming ragged and unsightly after it has stood 

 about 20 years. It is when young very vigorous, 

 and when pruned back occasionally to keep it 

 within bounds is very handsome, and will for these 

 reasons still occupy a prominent place in the lists. 



White Pine. Is the timber tree of the great 

 northwestern forests, and for this purpose it has no 

 rival. Those who have been brought up with it 

 hardly appreciate its beauty, as the New Bnglander 

 does not the Hemlock. He has become so accus- 

 tomed to it, and perhaps fought his way to a very 

 poor farm by years of hard toil over the ashes of 

 these trees. It is nevertheless among the most 

 beautiful of all. No other tree has such soft and 

 feathery needles; no other tree can make quite the 

 mournfully delicious music, as the wind sighs 

 through its branches, and the manner in which the 

 long lithe swaying branchlets pack together on the 

 wind side to make it "air-tight" is peculiar to this 

 tree alone. Long live the white pine, the great 

 North American evergreen. It is one of the sad- 

 dest commentaries on the greed and destructiveness 

 of man, that this magnificent tree in its natural 

 forest is slowly but surely fading away before his 

 devastating and triumphal march. The white 



