144 FAMILIAR TREES 



however, even in England, the shghtly curved needles, 

 spreading with feathery gracefulness from the droop- 

 ing but upturning branchlets, seem as beautiful an 

 object as any in our spring woodlands, and. we should 

 nowadays be loath indeed to be without the rosy 

 young cones. 



TRANSVERSE SECTION OF NEEDLE-LEAF OF LARCH. 



