THE PmE-TREE, OR FOREST LIFE, 



PART 11. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Tines.— White Pines : rank claimed for this Variety.— PreLlilections. 



Comparison iustitutej. — Pitch and Norway Pines. — White Pine. — Ma"-- 

 iiitade. — New York Pines. — Lambert's Piuo on Northwest Coast. — Varie- 

 ties. — Its Rank. — Great variety of purposes to which it is devoted. — Great 

 Pine near Jackson Lake. — Capital Invested. — Hands employed on the 

 Penobscot. 



After the foregoing brief notice of some of the most interest- 

 ing trees, we come at length to consider that species which con- 

 stitutes the theme of the following pages. 



The Pine has been appropriately called the Monarch of the 

 Forest. Taken all in all, it is the crowning master-piece of all 

 woody plants. This avowal is made hi full view of what has 

 been said respecting other specimens of tlie vegetable kingdom. 

 From early education, we arc accustomed to regard some things 

 as before others in point of merit, whether truth in the case would 

 support our notions or not. 



For trees we have our preferences. There is much of interest 

 in every development of nature — much to admire, especially in 

 the grandeur, the picturesque beauty, and sublimity of large for- 

 est trees. These things are so clearly defined in the mind of the 

 botanist — so many excellencies does he discover in each genus, 

 and every sjiecies of the respective families, that each succeeding 

 description seems to place the last before every preceduig one. 



