No one would take it at first sight to be a conifer of any kind, it is so loose in habit and so widely branched, and its foliage is so thin and gray.

No other conifer in the range is so closely restricted to special localities.

Because of its superior powers of enduring variations of climate and soil, it has a more extensive range than any other conifer growing on the Sierra.

No other Sierra conifer produces nearly so many seeds.

But whether old or young, sheltered or exposed to the wildest gales, this tree is ever found irrepressibly and extravagantly picturesque, and offers a richer and more varied series of forms to the artist than any other conifer I know of.

A more contentedly fruitful and unaspiring conifer could not be conceived.

It is a small, prickly leaved, glossy evergreen, like a conifer, from twenty to fifty feet high, and one to two feet in diameter.

Above the cascades the main stream passes through a series of open, sunny levels, the largest of which are about an acre in size, where the wild bees and their companions were feasting on a showy growth of zauschneria, painted cups, and monardella; and gray squirrels were busy harvesting the burs of the Douglas Spruce, the only conifer I met in the basin.

The central passage, which was fairly broad, ended in a glass door, which admitted one to a kind of courtyard, where a sickly conifer stood on a round patch of grass, which the dampness rotted.

Wood fossil conifer appears to have come from thisbetter to get leaveswrap fossils up for protection.

" Araucaria Imbricata (The Monkey Puzzle, or Chilian Pine).This strikingly handsome conifer is very suitable for a forecourt or for a single specimen on grass.

A beautiful and graceful conifer, its arched branches being thickly set with long grey-coloured or whitish-green leaves.

The Umbrella Pine (Sciadopitys) is a very striking conifer, and does well everywhere.

There is always something deeply exciting, not only in the sounds of winds in the woods, which exert more or less influence over every mind, but in their varied water-like flow as manifested by the movements of the trees, especially those of the conifers.

In testing material of the same kind and grade, differences of 25 per cent between individual specimens may be expected in conifers and 50 per cent or even more in hardwoods.

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The fibres (tracheids in conifers) act as hollow tubes bound closely together, and in giving way they either (1) buckle, or (2) bend.

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For eight conifers it is as follows: [Footnote 19: Bul. 108, U. S. Forest Service:

In conifers, at least, rate of growth alone does not determine the proportion of the two portions of the ring, for in some cases the wood of slow growth is very hard and heavy, while in others the opposite is true.

ARAUCA`RIA, tall conifer trees, natives of and confined to the southern hemisphere.