FOEEST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



other class. It has already been inti- 

 mated that the two are not always 

 strictly separable, but that individual 

 trees, or groups, or whole stretches of 

 woods of the one will sometimes min- 

 gle with the other, a fact that has 

 probably been noticed by the most 

 casual observer, "While the cone-bear- 

 ers, however, not infrequently de- 

 scend into the lower altitudes, the 

 leafy forest trees are not so apt to 

 be found at the high elevations at 

 which many of the former find their 

 natural home. "Where the cone-bearers 

 are merely an addition to the broadleaf 

 woods they do not quite preserve their 

 identity, but rather impress us as being 

 merely a part in the general adornment 

 and composition of the forest to which 

 they belong. Where they remain 

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