THE PINES 



its destruction; for one "spruce pillow" may 

 destroy a half dozen trees ! 



The white cedar, our common juniper, 

 with its aromatic blue berries or fruits, is per- 

 haps the most familiar of all the native ever- 

 greens. It comes to us of Pennsylvania all too 

 freely at Christmas time, when the tree of joy 

 and gifts may mean, in the wholesale, sad 

 forest destruction. This juniper I have 

 associated particularly with 

 the dogwood 

 and the red- 

 bud, to the 

 bloom of 

 which it sup- 

 plies a most 

 perfect back- 

 ground in the 

 favorite Cone- 

 wago park, a 

 purely natural 

 reservation of 

 things beautiful 

 along the Pennsylvania 

 railroad. Its lead-pencil _- ^ r .. i- 



* ^"^ Cones of the white spruce 



