FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
the trees are of small stature and seem 
to be struggling for their life. Again 
we meet it on the humid western slopes 
of the Sierra Nevada, associated with 
the sugar pine and other lofty trees. 
Here we scarcely recognize it. It holds 
its own among the company of giants, 
and is full of vitality, freedom, and 
strength; with brighter, redder bark 
and stout, sinuous branches; with 
longer needles and larger cones. The 
sunlight fills its ample crown spaces, 
and the wind murmurs in the foliage 
overhead; for the pines are the master 
musicians of the woods. 
The Southern States and the Gulf 
region furnish us with a conifer of 
striking originality and great useful- 
ness. This is the bald cypress, which 
may have caught the reader’s eye in 
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