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FIR-TREE. — PINUS. 



Natural order, Coniferce. A genus of the 

 Moncecia Monadelphia class. 



" Yon verdant pines, that midst the winter smile,* 

 Offspring of Scotia or Virginia's soil, 

 The world's extremes within their branches join'd, 

 To either hemisphere convey thy mind." 



Delille. 



" Towering firs in conic forms arise, 



And with a pointed spear divide the skies." 



Prior. 



It is not only in the countries of the north, 

 but also on the summits of eastern mountains, 

 that the fir and the pine-tree rear their heads 

 without the aid of man. We have already 

 noticed, that the forests of Lebanon were 

 composed of firs as well as cedars., " I will 

 do," said Hiram to Solomon, " all thy desire, 

 concerning timber of cedar and timber of fir." 



The allwise Providence, who scattered the 

 palms over the torrid zone, giving the cocoa- 

 tree to the sea-shore, and the date to desert 



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