The White Barked Pine of China. 



A trio of white barked pines (Piiius buugeuna] , grow- 

 ing in a field about twelve miles west of Pekin, China. 

 There is little that is particularly attractive about this 

 pine when it is young but in its old age it is said to 

 rank among the most striking of landscape trees because 

 after fifty years old the outer bark flakes off and the 

 trunk becomes almost as white as that of the birch. Photo 

 No. 5015 by F. N. Meyer, taken Dec. 29, 1915, near PeKin. 



