FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



cinnamon-red plates, and its foliage is 

 composed of sharp, short, needlelike 

 leaves, that bristle around the stem 

 and are bluish-green in color. Its 

 small brown cones droop from the ex- 

 tremities of the boughs and mass 

 themselves in the top of the tree. 

 Like most of the spruces, this one 

 climbs to high elevations. Many a 

 wild mountain slope in the "West is 

 covered by the dense ranks of these 

 straight, slender trees, with tapering 

 spires that are green in summer and 

 frosted with snow and rime in winter. 



The glory of our western forests, 

 however, are the sequoias, those gigan- 

 tic trees of California that have become 

 widely famous. The two sequoias, the 

 big tree of the Sierra Kevada and 

 the redwood of the Pacific coast, con- 

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