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to some extent, be borrowed from the striking contrast with 

 other associated trees, for it is rarely in forests of its own, 

 being mostly interspersed in all the Alpine, and some of the 

 subalpine regions of the coast. To our taste, the Great Sugar 

 Pine hath the far-extended oratorical gesture and open mag- 

 nanimous spread from the breast and top of a tall and rep- 

 resentative, or corresponding type of some sacred benediction 

 of " good will towards men," for trees always display in their 

 bearings types of human attributes. 



On the table-lands of middle Yuba, a fair sample of a grove 

 may be seen ; indeed, almost anywhere in the common belt 

 of about six thousand three hundred to seven thousand feet 

 altitude; always excepting that peculiar medium coast-tem- 

 pered belt that connects the Coast Range Mountains and 

 Sierras, above and around the head of Sacramento Valley, 

 where a few come down lower, in groups rather than groves, 

 or very much more sparsely , where, also, they develop but 

 few T cones, comparatively, even in favorable fruitful seasons, 

 and most of these, say two or more, become abortive, and it is 

 well if even one of the number matures ; besides, it should be 

 noted the cones are smaller, yet always characteristic. 



Found more or less in all parts of the State, namely, on 

 the Sierras from three to eight thousand feet of both slopes, 

 and a few in the highest points of the Coast Ranges from 

 Santa Lucia Mountains to Humboldt County, and so on 

 northward to the Columbia River. 



Betw T een the two forks of the Stanislaus River may be seen 

 a tree three hundred feet high, and about fifteen or sixteen 

 feet in diameter. 



PARRY'S PINYON PINE. 



(Pinus Parryana.) 



" Mid the pine tents on the moon-lit mount. 

 Where silence sits to listen to the stars." — Harvy. 



WE have more princely pines than this, which com- 

 memorates the indefatigable labors of our very 

 worthy friend, Dr. C. C. Parry, but none of such 

 exquisite beauty of symmetry, density of foliage, eminent use 

 and rarest of all rare foreground trees for limited or length- 

 ened landscapes. Mainly by its moderate size — from thirty 

 to forty feet high by one half to one and a half feet in diam- 

 eter — which greatly commends it to limited lawns and for 

 rural residences, as most species of evergreen and deciduous 

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