FOREST TREES 
pendent. The little shoots, as they 
peep out from hundreds of recesses, 
buoyant and lifelike, and the pendent 
top, are in some way suggestive of a 
playing fountain, especially in quite 
young trees. In the forest the symme- 
try of the hemlock is not always pre- 
served; yet it fits into the scene grace- 
fully, whether fringing the mountain 
stream or grouping itself among the 
other trees of the forest. 
The two western hemlocks also have 
exceedingly graceful sprays and majes- 
tic forms, but they are less familiar 
to most of us and are not as widely 
distributed as the smaller eastern 
species. 
One of the trees of widest geograph- 
ical range in America is the red cedar, 
or red juniper, as it should more prop- 
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