FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



ington and the redwoods of California, 

 which are probably the densest and 

 heaviest in the world; in the crowded 

 Engelmann spruce and alpine fir groves 

 common to certain soils and situations 

 in Colorado ; and in the dense tracts of 

 lodgepole pine scattered throughout 

 the mountains of the West. In the 

 East the same tendency is illustrated 

 by the better sections of the Adirondack 

 spruce forests and the splendid pineries 

 that once covered the Great Lake re- 

 gion. If we call to mind these exten- 

 sive examples, we realize how the coni- 

 fers ever strive to build a dense and 

 impenetrable forest. That they are ca- 

 pable of a like growth in other parts 

 of the world also, will be attested by 

 those who have seen the spruce and fir 

 forests of Germany and France. 

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