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character of the solid trunk is another feature 

 of importance. Sometimes the trunk rises erect 

 to a height, it may be, of nearly twenty feet 

 before Ijranching, and then it divides into enor- 

 mous limbs, partaking of the character of trunks 

 in their massiveness and solidity. From the 

 points of division of these, two or three othei^ 

 enormous limbs may rise erect, whilst others, 

 leading off all round at nearly right angles, again 

 divide into large branches, and these into stout 

 offsets, the whole stretching far away from the 

 trunk and preserving the spreading and noble 

 habit ,of the' tree. Looking up under a large 

 Cedar, one is impressed by the sight of the 

 interlacing network of limbs and branches, and 

 of the shadowy spread of the leafage above and 

 beyond. 



Nearly related to the Cedar of Lebanon and to 

 the other beautiful species of the genus Gedrus 

 (the Indian and the Mount Atlas Cedars), the 

 Pines afford, by the evergreen character of their 

 needle-shaped leaves, bright and delightful ex- 

 amples of the perennial verdancy of Nature. Their 

 number and variety preclude anything like a 



