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gives out a remarkably soothing and agreeable sound, which 

 agrees better with the description of Leigh Hunt : 



" And then there fled by me a rush of air 

 That stirr'd up all the other foliage there, 

 Filling the solitude with panting tongues, 

 At which the Pines wol<e up into their songs, 

 Shaking their choral locks." 



Pickering, one of our own poets, thus characterizes the 

 melody: 



"The overshadowing pines alone, through which I roam, 

 Their verdure keep, although it darker looks ; 

 And hark ! as it comes sighing through the grove, 

 The exhausted gale, a spirit there awakes. 

 That wild and melancholy music makes." 



This species seldom becomes flattened or rounded on the 

 summit in old age, like many other sorts, but preserves its 

 graceful and tapering form entire. From its pleasing growth 

 and colour, we consider it by far the most desirable kind for 

 planting in the proximity of buildings, and its growth for an 

 evergreen is also quite rapid, 



Tlie leaves of the White Pine are thickly disposed on the 

 branches, in little bundles or parcels of five. The cones are 

 about five inches long ; they hang when nearly ripe in a 

 pendulous manner from the branches, and open to shed their 

 seeds about the first of October. The bark on trees less than 

 twenty years old, is remarkably smooth, but becomes cracked 

 and rough, like that of the other Pines, when they grow old, 

 although it never splits and separates itself from the trunk in 

 scales, as in other species. 



The great forests of White Pine lie in the northern parts 

 of the Union ; and the geographical range of this tree is com- 

 prised chiefly between New-York and the 47th degree of 

 north latitude, it being neither capable of resisting the fierce 

 heat of the south, nor the intense cold of the extreme north- 



