The White Pine 



THE forest has many secrets worth finding out. 

 One of them is how to know its trees not only 

 in their summer dress, but when the branches 

 of some are bare, and you have only their forms, 

 their bark and buds to tell you what they are. 



The white pine, the spruce, the hemlock, the 

 balsam, and the cedar are all evergreens or 

 "conifers." The branches are clothed in leaves, 

 and are green the year around. Their seeds are 

 not like those of the other trees, for they grow in 

 cones. 



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