FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



rises, clear of limbs, to the height of 

 a hundred and fifty feet, and is sur- 

 mounted by an open pj^'amidal crown 

 of half that length, composed of long 

 and slender branches that are full of 

 motion. While the texture of the foli- 

 age is not as delicate as in the white 

 pine, it is smooth and elastic, and has 

 an even bluish tinge that shows to great 

 advantage when the needles are stirred 

 by the wind. Its cones, which are of 

 enormous size, hang in clusters from 

 the extremities of the distant boughs, 

 which droop beneath the unusual weight. 

 Two of these cones, which I have lying 

 before me, measure each nineteen inches 

 in length. Well might Douglas, the 

 botanist who named this tree, call it 

 " the most princely of the genus." 

 The longleaf pines of the Southern 

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