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years. While not so heavy as those of Coulter pine, the cones are of 
the same type and are much heavier and harder to handle than those 
of western yellow or Jeffrey pines or those of sugar pine, which, 
though long, are ight and without barbs. 
The Monterey pine (fig. 3), often 90 to 100 feet in height in 
sheltered locations, is only 60 to 80 feet high near the “coast, 
dwindling to a distorted, flat-topped dwarf ‘on the rocky points. 
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Ficurpn 3.—Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) 
The needles are 3 to 4 inches long, usually in bunches of three; the 
bark is dark and ridgy, and the closed cones hang for years on the 
tree. This tree is easily transplanted and grows readily from seed, 
and hence is used to hold drifting sands. Although of no timber 
value in California at present, it has been lar gely planted in Aus- 
tralia for box lumber. - 
The Indians often break the nuts and eat the seed of digger pine 
of the foothills, and they prize the nuts of sugar pine that “ float” 
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