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and we have found its use a valuable addition in producing 
effect. 
The Banksian Pine. Pinus Banlcsiana . — This variety is 
classed as a scrub pine of low slow growth and little value, 
and so we regarded it twenty-five years ago, when we procured 
Fig. 31 — The Scotch Pine. 
specimens of it in the barren sands of islands in Lake Michigan. 
Those same plants, however, are now some of them trees forty 
feet high and extremely beautiful. It has a swayed drooping 
