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SYLVA AMERICANA. 



White Pine. Pinns strobus. 





PLATE LXVil. 



Fig. 1. A leaf. Fig. 2. A cone. 



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A seed. 



This species, one of the 

 most interesting of the Amer- 

 ican pines, is known in 

 Canada and the United 

 States by the name of White 

 Pine, from the perfect white- 

 ness of its wood when freslily 

 exposed, and in New Hamp- 

 shire and Maine by the 

 secondary denominations of 

 Pumpkin Pine, Apple Pine 

 and Sapling Pine, which are 

 derived from certain acci- 

 dental peculiarities. This 

 tree is diffused, though not 

 uniformly, over a vast extent 

 of country; it is incapable 

 of supporting intense cold, and still less extreme heat. It is first 

 observed in the north about 40 leagues from the mouth of the 

 river Mistassin, which discharges itself into Lake St. John in 

 Canada, in the latitude of 48 50'. It appears to be most 

 abundant between the 43d and 47th degrees of latitude ; farther 

 south it is found in the valleys and on the declivities of the 

 Alleghanies to their termination, but at a distance from the 

 mountains on either side its growth is forbidden by the warmth 

 of the climate. It is said with great probability to be multiplied 

 near the source of the Mississippi which is in the same latitude 

 with the state of Maine, the upper part of New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, and the commencement of the St. Lawrence, where 

 it attains its greatest dimensions. In these countries it is seen in 

 very different situations, and it seems to accommodate itself to 

 all varieties of soil except such as consist wholly of sand, and 

 such are almost wholly submerged. The largest stocks are 

 found in the bottom of soft, pliable and fertile valleys, on the 



