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727. The evergreens display a striking contrast of color. The 

 leafy, fan-shaped branches of the hemlock-spruce (tsiiga) arc 



Fig. 507, 

 Austrian pine, sliowing young growth of brandies in early spring. 



fringed with the light green of the new growtli. The pines lift 

 up numbers of cylindrical shoots, with the leaf fnscicles for a 

 time sheathed in the whitened scales, while the shoots are tipped 

 with the brown or flame-colored female flowers, reraindin<T one 



