THE FORESTS 



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grayish-green needles are from eight to twelve 

 inches long, loosely tasseled, and inclined to droop 

 in handsome curves, contrasting with the stiff, dark- 



NUT PINE (PINUS SABINIANA). 



colored trunk and branches in a very striking 

 manner. No other tree of my acquaintance, so sub 

 stantial in body, is in its foliage so thin and so per 

 vious to the light. The sunbeams sift through 



