FOREST TREES 
beautifully interwoven twigs and 
stems. It is here that we first begin 
to notice the exquisite manner of the 
white pine. The boughs reach out 
horizontally, with here and there one 
that ascends or turns aside to assume 
a position exceptionally graceful and 
to fill out a space that seems specially 
to have been vacated for it. I speak 
of the white pine at the age preceding 
maturity, when it is in its full strength, 
but before it has attained the pictur- 
esqueness of old age. Following an 
easy curve, the branch divides at right 
and left into dozens of finer branch- 
lets, all extending forward and strain- 
ing, as it were, to reach the light; and 
these in turn lift up hundreds of twigs 
and little stems to enrich the upper sur- 
faces with bushy tufts of lithe green 
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