Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 741
six thousand or seven thousandfeet above the sea. From that height up to tim-ber-line (at about eleven thousand feet in thewarm southern latitude where I live), there occurseveral other species. The gracefully curvedcone, No. 10, is the fruit of the sturdy western 1134 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG… … A SUGAR-PINE ON AN EXPOSED RIDGE. Just above the tamarack comes in the hemlock,one of the most beautiful of our trees, and bear-ing the pretty little cone No. 8; then the limberpine, No. u, one of the hardiest of pines. High-est of all, on the edge of perpetual snow, is foundthe white-bark pine,…
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