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grows very tall, sometimes a hundred and fifty feet, and 

 flourishes as well in America as in Europe. The cones 

 are four or five inches long. Its wood is known in 

 Europe as deal. 



64. Cypress. In the swamps of our southern states, 

 from Maryland south along the Gulf of Mexico, are 



found great dark forests of 

 the bald cypress. 



They grow directly out 

 of the water and are famous 

 for a peculiar formation of 

 the roots called cypress 

 knees, lumpy growths 

 which come up out of the 

 water as if they were in 

 search of air. The cypress 

 is a tall, spirelike tree, 

 which has the most deli- 

 FIG. 127. Cypress ca t e> feathery needles im- 



aginable. They drop off in the fall, so that the tree 

 is sometimes called deciduous cypress. The cones are 

 roundish and about an inch long. The timber furnished 

 by this tree is very handsome in grain and valuable for 

 many parts of buildings, especially inside finishing. 



65. The Balsam Fir, or our famous Christmas tree, is 

 noted for its great healing qualities. In fact, sanitaria 



