The White Barked Pine of China. 
A trio of white barked pines (Pinus bungeana) , grow- 
ing in a field about twelve miles west of Pekin, China. 
There is little that is particularly attractive about this 
pine when it is young but in its old age it is said to 
rank among the most striking of landscape trees because 
after fifty years old the outer bark flakes off and the 
trunk becomes almost as white as that of the birch. Photo 
No. 5015 by F. N. Meyer, taken Dec. 29, 1915, near PeKin. 
