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

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198 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.<br />

NEOWASHINGTONIA. PALMS.<br />

Trhis small group <strong>of</strong> ialins, nained in honor <strong>of</strong> George Washington, is corn-<br />

Iposed <strong>of</strong> trees with big, coluimmi-like trunks, almost uniform in diameter<br />

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FIG. 77.-Neowasluingtonia filifcra; original 48 feet high.<br />

throughout <strong>the</strong>ir length. The top <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> trunk has a dense crown <strong>of</strong> very<br />

broad, fan-like, long-stemmed, circular leaves, deeply slashed into ribbon-like<br />

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