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Tlie bark is smoother tlian tliat of any other 

 tree of the Pine kind, except the "Weymouth; 

 though we do not esteem this among its pic- 

 turesque beauties. Its hue, however, which is 

 warm and reddish, has a good efEect; and it 

 obtains a kind of roughness by peehng off in 

 patches. 



The foliage of the Stone Pine is as beautiful as 

 the stem. Its colour is a deep, warm green ; 

 and its form, instead of breaking into acute 

 angles, like many of the Pine race, is moulded 

 into a flowing line by an assemblage of small 

 masses. 



As age comes on, its round clump-head becomes 

 more flat, spreading itself into a canopy, which 

 is a form equally becoming. And yet I doubt 

 whether any resinous tree ever attains that pic- 

 turesque beauty in age which we admire so much 

 in the Oak. The Oak continues long vigorous 

 in his branches, though his trunk decays : but the 

 resinous tree, I believe, decays more equally 

 through all its parts ; and, in age, oftener presents 

 the idea of vegetable decrepitude than of the 

 stout remains of a vigorous constitution. And 



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