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De I. VNER VEW D Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope

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184 FPOREST TREES OF TIE PACIFIC SLOPE.<br />

with shiny, purplish rose-colored wings. Seed-leaves, are 9 to 13, usually 12,<br />

about five-eighths <strong>of</strong> an itich lomg anid bluntly poinitedl. Wood. one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> three<br />

heavy fir woods, is about a pound heavier per cubic foot (dry) titan that <strong>of</strong><br />

Fitc. 53.-Abics )50C51fiC0 a, seed.<br />

tioble fir. It is s<strong>of</strong>t but firmt. ra<strong>the</strong>r brittle, straight, and usually fine-grained.<br />

Considerably ittore durable in :tat umnprotected statte thamn wood <strong>of</strong> any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r native firs. It is yellowvish brown, with a reddish tinge. The, commiercial

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