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luntpcrug Duc^inicinct. Natural Order: Coniferce — Pine Family. 
EARLY all the Pine family are pleasing to the eye for the 
diversity as well as the continuity of their foliage. There 
Up are somewhat over a hundred species in the order, and all 
of them of infinite importance to man, growing as some of 
Jthem do in immense forests, they yield an unbounded supply 
of timber for various architectural purposes, being light, 
easily wrought and durable. This includes all the pines, hemlocks, 
spruces and cedars. The large, straight trunks of the White Pine 
are in great demand for the masts of vessels, while other varieties 
yield the resinous sap from which resin, tar, pitch and turpentine 
are manufactured. The Red Cedar is a middle-sized tree, found in 
the United States, but principally in rocky situations near the sea- 
coast. Its wood is of a reddish cast, compact, fine grained, and 
almost imperishable, so well does it resist all the processes of decay. 
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TpOR thee I will arouse my thoughts to try 
All heavenward flights, all high and holy strains; 
For thy dear sake I will walk patiently 
Through these long hours, nor call their minutes pain. 
A J OW, the plaintive f tones inspiring 
^ ' Still more sweet and yearning swell, 
Till my spirit bursts its bondage, 
That had chained it with its spell; 
—Frances Anne Kemble. 
And I’m hastening with affection 
To my hidden darling there, 
Where the cedar boughs are waving 
In the rustling evening air. 
-L. Sylvestre. 
"ITTE will walk this world, 
** Yok’d in all exercise of noble aim, 
And so through those dark gates across the wild 
That no man knows. 
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— Tennyson. 
