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FIG. 119. SCOTS PINE (Pinus sylvestris). 



In a pine wood the trunks grow very straight and tapering, due to the fact that a "canopy" of foliage is formed by 

 the upper branches which shuts out lisht from the lower branches and prevents their growth to any size. In the fore- 

 ground to the right of the photo will be seen a triplet. Three seedlings started so close together that as they have 

 increased in girth their lower trunks have been squeezed and amalgamated, y. EUROPE, ASIA. 



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