FOREST TREES 



pendent. The little shoots, as they 

 peep out from hundreds of recesses, 

 buoyant and lifelike, and the pendent 

 top, are in some way suggestive of a 

 playing fountain, especially in quite 

 young trees. In the forest the symme- 

 try of the hemlock is not always pre- 

 served; yet it fits into the scene grace- 

 fully, whether fringing the mountain 

 stream or grouping itself among the 

 other trees of the forest. 



The two western hemlocks also have 

 exceedingly graceful sprays and majes- 

 tic forms, but they are less familiar 

 to most of us and are not as widely 

 distributed as the smaller eastern 

 species. 



One of the trees of widest geograph- 

 ical range in America is the red cedar, 

 or red juniper, as it should more prop- 

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