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and we have found its use a valuable addition in producing 

 effect. 



THE BANKSIAN PINE. Pinus BanTcsiana. This variety is 

 classed as a scrub pine of low slow growth and little value, 

 and so we regarded it twenty-five years ago, when we procured 



FIG. 31. THE SCOTCH PINE. 



specimens of it in the barren sands of islands in Lake Michigan. 

 Those same plants, however, are now some of them trees forty 

 feet high and extremely beautiful. It has a swayed drooping 



