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AMKRICAN FORESTRY 



only the hand of Nature can mould. At its base and ex- 

 tending upward about half an inch, the cone is a purple 

 shade, in which are stuck many little creamy narrow stems 

 about an inch long. Just where they are attached to this 



The seeds are of the shape and size of a bean, and when 

 full grown are of a bright red color. By September the 

 cones have matured and they begin to fall to the ground. 

 The pockets burst and the seeds fall out. They may be 

 gathered and sold for sixty cents per pound to a perfume 

 manufacturer. A rare perfume is made from them, which 

 possesses the same sweet, delicate scent as the flower, and a 

 soothing calmness pervades one while inhaling it. 



It is an old but unfounded belief that the southern Span- 

 ish moss is a parasitic plant that it feeds upon the mag- 

 nolia in a most appalling manner, absorbing the juices of 

 the tree, and retarding its growth . It hangs in long, grace- 

 ful streamers from the limbs very beautiful to the ob- 

 server, and not fatal to the tree. 



But the glory and magnificence of these wonderful trees 



A YOUNG MAGNOLIA 



This tree has attained to height and stateliness, though it is still quite young. 

 Note particularly the heavy growth of symmetrical limbs, reaching nearly to the 

 ground. 



purple cone each stem is also purple. Above these, ar- 

 ranged in regularity all over the remaining part of the cone, 

 are from forty to fifty small, round, curling, transparent 

 stems which are to form pockets for the seeds which are 

 to develop later. The Magnolia bloom measures from 

 ten to twelve inches in diameter. 



The many large leaves surrounding the bloom are of a 

 bright, tenderest green color curved and grouped in 

 Nature's most graceful lines. 



By July Fourth the last of these magnificent flowers 

 has gone and the cone begins to develop. Each of these 

 pockets is now closed and contains one or two seeds. 



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A STATELY MAGNOLIA BEAUTIFULLY FESTOONED WITH SPAN- 

 ISH MOSS 

 This splendid tree is fifteen feet in circumference at its base. The Spanish moss 

 with which it is so heavily hung may, as some claim, retard the growth of the 

 limbs and leaves, but it surely adds greatly to the picturesque appearance of the 

 tree. 



are more fully brought out on moonlight nights. When 

 the atmosphere is clear and with a full moon in the back- 

 ground look up at their mighty statures! They stand in 

 silence, and the graceful contour of trunk and limbs stands 

 out more boldly. Their very greatness seems a protection 

 to one, their beauty a pleasure to one, and a study of them 

 calls one closer to Nature. 



THE Pennsylvania Department of Forestry refuses to be 

 scared by the white pine blister rust. Almost 50 per 

 cent of the 3,750,000 trees planted on the State Forests 

 this spring were white pine. 





