4 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



are cultivated varieties of various fruits which will succeed in 

 this state it will not be advisable as a pecuniary consideration 

 to make large plantations of any of these wild ones, except 

 perhaps the wild plum or the flowering currant. 



Some of our native fruits have no close kin in any of the cul- 

 tivated fruits. The domestication and improvement of such 

 would therefore be desirable. The buffalo-berry and the ser- 

 vice-berry may be mentioned as kinds of fruit which are un- 

 known in the market. Any improved variety of these evolved 

 in the future will therefore be a welcome addition to our wealth 

 of small fruits. The problem of improving certain native fruits 

 will appeal to many persons. Such work is exceedingly engag- 

 ing, and will afford a pleasurable pastime to those who have 

 some leisure. 



PINE FAMILY. 

 (Pinaceae). 



The members of this family are nearly all cone-bearers, such 

 as the pines, spruces and firs, and with a few exceptions are 

 all evergreen. In some of these evergreens, as the common 

 junipers, the cones are very small and modified so as not to be 

 recognized as such, being generally known as berries. The 

 larch, yew, arbor vitae and the giant redwood of California all 

 belong to this family. The evergreens are among the most 

 popular and most handsome of our ornamentals and are large- 

 ly used for the decoration of home grounds and public parks. 

 The pines and many other evergreen trees furnish us with vast 

 quantities of valuable timber. From the balsam fir is obtained 

 the fine turpentine known as Canada balsam, and the yellow 

 pine of the southern United States yields tar, turpentine and 

 rosin. 



*Since the publication of Prof. Aven Nelson's bulletin on "The Trees of Wyoming and 

 How to Know Them," another pine, the white-bark pine (Pinus albicaulis) has bwn found on 

 the high Tetons. 



