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ECOLOGY. 



727. The evergreens display a striking contrast of color. The 

 leafy, fan-shaped branches of the hemlock-spruce (tsuga) are 



Fig. 507. 

 Austrian pine, showing young growth of branches in early spring. 



fringed with the light green of the new growth. The pines lift 

 up numbers of cylindrical shoots, with the leaf fascicles for a 

 time sheathed in the whitened scales, while the shoots are tipped 

 with the brown or flame-colored female flowers, reminding one 



