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Trees That Produced Amber

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 29.

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Trees That Produced Amber

PRUSSIAN botanists claim to have discovered the different species of trees from which the various kinds of amber once oozed. From their researches it would appear that once upon a time the land which is now the Baltic Sea was a superb forest of conifers, some of them those giant trees that are to-day the pride of California, others the cedars which tower supreme in the East, together with the firs, spruce, and cypress of England and other countries.