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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 740

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—the knob-cone and theprickle-cone —are interesting for their odd habitof clinging to the trees for years, unopened. Theyusually grow in circles or whorls, tight againstthe stem or branch, and often become entirelyembedded in the wood. In the case of the knob-cone pine, this behavior seems to be… … i, Sugar-pine; 2, Lodge-pole pine, or tamarack; 3, Douglas spruce; 4, Monterey cypress ; 5 and 6, Pifion pines, one-leafed and four-leafed; 7, Redwood; 8, Mountain hemlock; 9, Yellow pine; 10, Western white pine; 11, Limberpine; 12, Torreypine; 13, Digger-pine; 14, Big tree; 15, White-bark pine ;…

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