MOUNTAIN TREES 



or proper leaves of the shoot, which look 

 not at all like foliage, but rather like 

 delicate scales. These soon fall away. 

 Another kind of leaf of pines is the sim- 

 ple juvenile leaf of the sapling. Scien- 

 tifically speaking even the scales of the 

 cones are leaves, modified for the spe- 

 cial work of seed production. So then, 

 we may say that a pine tree has four 

 kinds of leaves juvenile, primary, foli- 

 age and sporophyll. 



