EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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says Virgil, speaking of the European Pine. But the 
murmur of the slight breeze among the foliage of the 
White 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 sthTd 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 awakens, 
'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 color, we consider it by far the 
most desirable kind for planting in the proximity of 
buildings, 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 becomes cracked and rough, like that of the othei 
