112 CONE-BEARING TREES. 



CHAPTER IX. 



CONE - BEARING TREES THEIR PECULIARITIES GIGANTIC 



TREES OF CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES MOST FAVORABLE TO 



THE GROWTH OF EVERGREENS WHITE PINE YELLOW 



PINE LONG-LEAVED PINE BLACK, WHITE, AND HEMLOCK 



SPRUCE SILVER FIR LARCH CYPRESS DURABILITY 



OF CYPRESS WOOD THE CEDAR OF LEBANON. 



E have spoken in a previous chap- 

 ter of the effect produced upon a 

 landscape by the variety observ- 

 able in the different trees, both 

 as to their outline and the cha- 

 racter of their foliage. We will 

 now notice a few of a class which perhaps, 

 above all we have mentioned, exert a great 

 influence in beautifying the face of the earth. 

 They form by themselves a separate group 

 or family known to botanists as the Conifera, or Cone- 

 bearing trees, and their peculiar appearance will 

 at once distinguish them from others. They are 

 mostly evergreens, and their foliage consists of long, 

 narrow cylindrical leaflets, thickly scattered around 

 the stem, as in the various species of Pine, or of 

 short, flat, and prickly appendages, arranged in a 

 double row, one on each side of the stem, as may be 



