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uses ill Great Britain, and to those pathetic ahusions to it in 

 the elegiac poetry of that country. 



But if all the above named qualities were present in a tree, 

 it would be greatly wanting in one of the most important 

 requisites of beauty, if it were destitute of motion. It is 

 this, no less than the greenness of its foliage, that gives it 

 the appearance of life, and renders it suggestive of cheerful- 

 ness and animation. In this respect there are characteristic 

 differences among trees of different species, all varying in the 

 flutter of their leaves and the sway of their branches. So 

 intimately associated is a tree with its motions when agitated 

 by the wind, that it is difhcnlt to separate the idea of one 

 from that of the other. In this point consists one of the 

 superiorities of a real landscape, considered only as an object 

 of sight, over the finest representations on canvas. 



Let us now turn our attention to the white pine, to deter- 

 mine in what proportions these several qualities are united 

 in this tree. At the very first sight of a full grown and well 

 developed while pine, every one is struck with its evident 

 serviceability for all purposes of shade and shelter. It wears 

 the evidence of these qualities in every part of its form and 

 appearance ; in its wide-spread and horizontal branches, in 

 the density of its foliage, and its general amplitude. It is not 

 impenetrable to the sunshine, but admits it only in small por- 

 tions of light, Avhich are constantly flickering with the easy 

 sway of its foliage and branches. One perceives immediately 

 that there is no other tree under whose shade it would be 

 more agreeable to recline on a hot summer's day, or under 

 whose protection one could obtain a greater amount of com- 

 fort in winter. 



In the second place, we find these circumstances combined 

 with a high degree of positive beauty, arising from the regu- 

 lar symmetrical outline of this tree ; the uniform arrangement 

 of its branches, in regular whorls, forming a series of stages, 

 one above another; and, lastly, its tasseled foliage of lively 

 green, in long silky tufts at the ends of the branches, which 

 are so slender as to yield a sort of flowing grace to the whole 

 tree. These tufts, unlike the stiff foliage of other pines, are 



