FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
rises, clear of limbs, to the height of 
a hundred and fifty feet, and is sur- 
mounted by an open pyramidal crown 
of half that length, composed of long 
and slender branches that are full of 
motion. While the texture of the foli- 
age is not as delicate as in the white 
pine, it is smooth and elastic, and has 
an even bluish tinge that shows to great 
advantage when the needles are stirred 
by the wind. Its cones, which are of 
enormous size, hang in clusters from 
the extremities of the distant boughs, 
which droop beneaththe unusual weight. 
Two of these cones, which I have lying 
before me, measure each nineteen inches 
in length. Well might Douglas, the 
botanist who named this tree, call it 
“the most princely of the genus.” 
The longleaf pines of the Southern 
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