FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
cinnamon-red plates, and its foliage is 
composed of sharp, short, needlelike 
leaves, that bristle around the stem 
and are bluish-green in color. Its 
small brown cones droop from the ex- 
tremities of the boughs and mass 
themselves in the top of the tree. 
Like most of the spruces, this one 
climbs to high elevations. Many a 
wild mountain slope in the West is 
covered by the dense ranks of these 
straight, slender trees, with tapering 
spires that are green in summer and 
frosted with snow and rime in winter. 
The glory of our western forests, 
however, are the sequoias, those gigan- 
tic trees of California that have become 
widely famous. The two sequoias, the 
big tree of the Sierra Nevada and 
the redwood of the Pacific coast, con- 
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