The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . h yellow pines in sunny, open forests, wherethe trees have opportunity to show the grace of their pendantlimbs and the beauty of their red cone flowers and the ruddy conesadorned with pale green bracts. A small cone it is for so large atree, yet one to remember for its beauty. The Douglas spruce is known as Oregon pine in the lum-ber markets of the coast. The Puget Sound region furnishesspars of it to every great shipyard in the world. They are usedas piles in wharves in Western har
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . h yellow pines in sunny, open forests, wherethe trees have opportunity to show the grace of their pendantlimbs and the beauty of their red cone flowers and the ruddy conesadorned with pale green bracts. A small cone it is for so large atree, yet one to remember for its beauty. The Douglas spruce is known as Oregon pine in the lum-ber markets of the coast. The Puget Sound region furnishesspars of it to every great shipyard in the world. They are usedas piles in wharves in Western harbours. Shipbuilders, bridge-builders—everybody who needs heavy timbers of great durability,toughness and hardness—desire this kind if it can be had. Thebest grades of it are stronger than the wood of any other largeconifer in America. Its faults for general lumber purposes areits hardness and its tendency to warp in boards. The Douglas spruce as seen in nurseries is the quickest-growing evergreen of all. Immense quantities of seed are sentto Europe, where the tree is grown both for ornament and for tim-. 3 <3 r8 ?a o — _? <u o WU P Ph S * H 3 ?t! ^ fl-5 O!L> O So £c 3 o C J3 13 ?a -aH
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