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The Table-Mountain Pine has leaves in groups of two ; their 

 very stiff, stout and sharp-pointed nature distinguish the tree from 

 other two-needle pines. Furthermore, the cones, which may remain 

 on the trees for 15 or 20 years, are armed with distinct prickles 

 on the scales. The cones appear in clusters of three to eight, not 

 scattered. 



The tree which stands between the two Table-Mountain Pines 

 as well as 13 other similar ones scattered over the remaining por- 

 tion of this Section, some of which we have already noted, we 

 should recognize as the common Jack Pine (p. 24), by their 

 cones and general appearance. On the eastern side of these Jack 

 Pines the tree farthest up the slope is another Scotch Pine. 



Now, to finish this Section, let us begin at the corner of the two 

 paths just between the little Korean Pines we have already noted 

 and the fine Blue Spruces on the opposite side. Proceeding along 

 the path toward the Museum, the taller tree just beyond the last 

 small Korean Pine we should recognize by its clumps of leaves on 

 the trunk as a Pitch Pine (p. 36). Directly east of it toward the 

 slope the tree with the softer-colored bluish-green leaves is an 

 older Korean Pine. Along the path are scattered fourteen more 

 young trees of this species. And still one more, an older speci- 

 men, is that very bushy-looking, stunted tree with rather striking 

 bunches of needles that stands east of these younger ones with 

 the Jack Pines for a background. The two remaining trees here 

 are just to the right of this last Korean Pine and are Pitch Pines. 



Section 4 



The fourth and last section of the Pines lies directly east of 

 Conservatory Range 1 (Map p. 7). We shall begin at the north- 

 west corner and proceed along the gravel path that runs south 

 between the Section and the flower beds on the east side of the 

 Conservatory. 



The first six trees on our left along the path we should recog- 

 nize as Japanese Black-Pines (p. 28), for we have already en- 

 countered others like them in Sections 2 and 3. The fourth and 

 sixth of these are set back from the path more than the others. 



