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twenty- two. It had thirty-four annual rings. 

 Another was truly a veteran pine, though his 

 trunk was but six-tenths of an inch in diameter, 

 his height twenty-three inches, and his limb- 

 spread thirty-one. His age was sixty-seven 

 years. A midget that I carried home in my vest 

 pocket was' two inches high, had a limb-spread 

 of about four inches, and was twenty-eight 

 years of age. 



A limber pine I examined was full of annual 

 rings and experiences. A number of its rings 

 were less than one hundredth of an inch in 

 thickness. At the height of four feet its trunk 

 took on an acute angle and extended nine feet 

 to leeward, then rose vertically for three feet. 

 Its top and limbs merged into a tangled mass 

 about one foot thick, which spread out eight 

 feet horizontally. It was four hundred and nine 

 years old. It grew rapidly during its first thirty- 

 eight years; then followed eighteen years during 

 which it almost ceased growing; after this it 

 grew evenly though slowly. 



One day by the sunny and sheltered side of a 

 boulder I found a tiny seed-bearer at an alti- 



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