The effect was altogether bewitching.
The tree was apparently rare.

I should say that the first and last samples of it seen by us were not more than half an hour apart.

There was another tree of striking aspect, a kind of pine, we were told.

Its foliage was as fine as hair, apparently, and its mass sphered itself above the naked straight stem like an explosion of misty smoke.

It was not a sociable sort; it did not gather in groups or couples, but each individual stood far away from its nearest neighbor.