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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Pine gives out a remarkably soothing and agreeable sound, 
which agrees better with the description of Leigh Hunt : 
“ And then there fled by me a rush of air 
That stirr’d up all the other foliage there, 
Filling the solitude with panting tongues, 
At which the Pines woke up into their songs, 
Shaking their choral locks." 
Pickering, one of our own poets, thus characterizes the 
melody : 
“ The overshadowing pines alone, through which I roam, 
Their verdure keep, although it darker looks ; 
And hark ! as it comes sighing through the grove, 
The exhausted gale, a spirit there awakes, 
That wild and melancholy music makes.” 
This species — the White Pine — seldom becomes flattened 
or rounded on the summit in old age, like many other sorts, 
but preserves its graceful and tapering form entire. From 
its pleasing growth and colour, we consider it by far the 
most desirable kind for planting in the proximity of build- 
ings, and its growth for an evergreen is also quite rapid. 
The leaves of the White Pine are thickly disposed on the 
branches, in little bundles or parcels of five. The cones 
are about five inches long ; they hang, when nearly ripe, in 
a pendulous manner from the branches, and open, to shed 
their seeds, about the first of October. The bark on trees 
less than twenty years old, is remarkably smooth, but be- 
comes cracked and rough, like that of the other Pines, when 
they grow old, although it never splits and separates itself 
from the trunk in scales, as in other species. 
The great forests of White Pine lie in the northern parts 
