THEIR ANCIENT LINEAGE 



of the archaic forms of trees have persisted down 

 through remote ages to the present day. Of such 

 may be instanced the Araucarias, now confined to 

 South America and Australasia. A familiar example 

 of these trees is the Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria 

 excelsd), so much in request for indoor decorative 

 purposes in the colder parts of this country, and 

 quite hardy in California. Other examples are the 

 Cycads, which are found scattered through the 

 Southern Hemisphere and northward to the Tropic 

 of Cancer, the Cedars of Lebanon, of Cyprus, of 

 the Atlas Mountains and of the western Himalayas ; 

 also the Ginkgo of China, Korea, and Japan. 



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