FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
the pale-blue sky, listening to the swish 
and whisper of the sea. 
Several cone-bearing trees of the 
Western States remain to be consid- 
ered. These are the firs and spruces, 
which belong to the same class as the 
pines; and the big tree and redwood, 
relatives of the bald cypress. 
The Douglas spruce, or red fir, is in 
reality neither a true spruce nor a fir, 
though it has some of the character- 
istics of each. It was discovered as 
long ago as 1795 by the famous ex- 
plorer, Archibald Menzies. This spe- 
cies and a smaller one that grows on 
the arid mountains of southern Cali- 
fornia, with possibly a third that is 
found in Japan, constitute together 
the whole genus Pseudotsuga. But 
whatever its botanical peculiarities, the 
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