GETTING AC^AINTED WITH THE TREES 



sister, the red cedar, reaches our Hterary senses 

 as closely as does the pulp-making spruce ! 



I might write much of the rare introduced 

 cypresses from Japan and China, and of the 

 peculiar variations that have been worked out 

 by the nurserymen among the native pines and 

 firs ; yet this would not be talk of the trees of 

 the open ground, but rather of the nursery 

 and the park. AlsO; if I had but seen them, 

 there would be much to say about the mag- 

 nificent conifers of the great West, from the 

 giant red-woods, or sequoias, of the Mariposa 

 grove in California to the richly varied pines 

 of the Rockies. But I can only suggest to my 

 readers the intimate consideration of all this 

 great pine family, so peculiarly valuable to 

 mankind, and the use of some of the pines 

 and spruces about the home for the steady 

 cheer of green they so fully provide. 



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