ETEEGEEEN TEEES. 



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and we have found its use a valuable addition in producing 

 effect. 



The Banksian Pine. Pinus Banksiana. — This variety is 

 classed as a scrub pine of low slow growth and little value, 

 and so we regarded it twenty-five years ago, when we procured 





Pig. 31.— The Scotch Pine. 



specimens of it in the barren sands of- islands in Lake Michigan. 

 Those same plants, however, are now some of them trees forty 

 feet high and extremely beautiful. It has a swayed drooping 



