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The continuity of this flowery zone is interrupted here and there, especially on the south side of the mountain, by wide swaths of coniferous trees, chiefly the sugar and yellow pines, Douglas spruce, silver fir, and incense cedar, many specimens of which are two hundred feet high and five to seven feet in diameter.
His food consists of grass-seeds, berries, hazel-nuts, chinquapins, and the nuts and seeds of all the coniferous trees without exception, Pine, Fir, Spruce, Libocedrus, Juniper, and Sequoia, he is fond of them all, and they all agree with him, green or ripe. No cone is too large for him to manage, none so small as to be beneath his notice.
The White Pine, the most noble and the most beautiful tree of the whole coniferous tribe, predominates in the New-England forest; though some wide tracts are covered with the more homely Pitch-Pines, which are the trees that scent the atmosphere on damp still days with their delightful terebinthine odors.
Each was expressing itself in its own way, singing its own song, and making its own peculiar gestures, manifesting a richness of variety to be found in no other forest I have yet seen. The coniferous woods of Canada, and the Carolinas, and Florida, are made up of trees that resemble one another about as nearly as blades of grass, and grow close together in much the same way.
To really hear this grand symphony, for such it then becomes, you must listen to the wind playing on the tops of a great primeval coniferous forest, of scores and hundreds of acres or miles in extent.
Was it a giant on a lonely coast, or thick low growth blistered in ravines and dells? That's the witchery of amber, that it has no cause, that all the world grew to produce it, may-be died and gave no other sign, that its tree, which must have been beautiful, dropped all its fruits; and how bursting with juice must they have been" "Unfortunately, coniferous." "Be quiet.
In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north. Its pines, firs, spruces, hemlocks, and cedars which are really junipers, cover most of Canada together with northern New England and the region south of Lakes Huron and Superior. At its northern limit the forest looks thoroughly forlorn.
In a rambling mountaineering journey of eighteen hundred miles across the state, I have met nine species of coniferous trees, four pines, two spruces, two junipers, and one fir, about one third the number found in California. By far the most abundant and interesting of these is the Pinus Fremontiana, or nut pine.
These plants occur in fourteen of the beds namely, in two of the clays, and the rest in the lignites. One of the beds is a perfect mat of the debris of a coniferous tree, called by Heer Sequoia Couttsiae, intermixed with leaves of ferns. Another bed is full of the large rhizomes of ferns, while two others are rich in dicotyledonous leaves.
It presents exactly the pure forest conditions, and makes accessible to thousands the full beauty and soothing that nothing but a coniferous forest can provide for man.
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