IN popular estimation, the pines seem to 

 belong to the North, not quite so exclu- 

 sively as do the palms to the South. The 

 ragged, picturesque old pines, spruces and 

 hemlocks of our remembrance carry with them 

 the thought of great endurance, long life and 

 snowy forests. We think of them, too, as 

 belonging to the mountains, not to the plains ; 

 as clothing steep slopes with their varied deep 

 greens rather than as standing against the 

 sky-line of the sea. Yet I venture to think 

 that the most of us in the East see oftenest 

 the pines peculiar to the lowlands, as we flit 

 from city to city over the steel highways of 

 travel, and have most to do, in an econom- 

 ical sense, with a pine that does not come 

 north of the Carolinas — the yellow pine which 

 furnishes our familiar house - flooring. 



The pine family, as we discuss it, is not aJi 

 pines, in exactitude — it includes many diverse 



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