Compared with the giants of the lower zones, this is a small tree, seldom attaining a height of a hundred feet.

The largest specimen I ever measured was ninety feet in height, and a little over six in diameter four feet from the ground.

The average height of mature trees throughout the entire belt is probably not far from fifty or sixty feet, with a diameter of two feet.

It is a well-proportioned, rather handsome little pine, with grayish-brown bark, and crooked, much-divided branches, which cover the greater portion of the trunk, not so densely, however, as to prevent its being seen.

The lower limbs curve downward, gradually take a horizontal position about half-way up the trunk, then aspire more and more toward the summit, thus forming a sharp, conical top.