FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
other class. It has already been inti- 
mated that the two are not always 
strictly separable, but that individual 
trees, or groups, or whole stretches of 
woods of the one will sometimes min- 
gle with the other, a fact that has 
probably been noticed by the most 
casual observer. While the cone-bear- 
ers, however, not infrequently de- 
scend into the lower altitudes, the 
leafy forest trees are not so apt to 
be found at the high elevations at 
which many of the former find their 
natural home. Where the cone-bearers 
are merely an addition to the broadleaf 
woods they do not quite preserve their 
identity, but rather impress us as being 
merely a part in the general adornment 
and composition of the forest to which 
they belong. Where they remain 
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