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renders the long-leaved pine superior to the white pine in the 

 opinion of the greater part of American ship builders. The 

 bowsprits and yards are also made of white pine. The wood is 

 not resinous enough to furnish turpentine for commerce, nor 

 would the labour of extracting it be easy, since this tree occupies 

 exclusively tracts of only a few hundred acres, and is usually 

 mingled in different proportions with the leafy trees. 



Loblolly Pine. Pinus tceda. 



Throughout the lower 

 parts of the Southern States 

 this species is called Loblolly 

 Pine, and sometimes White 

 Pine in Virginia. Its most 

 northern limit is at Freder- 

 icks burgh, 230 miles south 

 of Philadelphia. In the 

 lower part of Virginia and 

 in the districts of North 

 Carolina situated north-east 

 of the river Cape Fear, over 

 an extent of nearly 200 

 miles, it grows wherever the 

 soil is dry and sandy. In 

 the same parts of Virginia, 

 it exclusively occupies lands 

 that have been exhausted by cultivation, and forests of oak 

 tracts of 100 or 200 acres are not unfrequently seen covered with 

 thriving young pines. In the more Southern States it is the most 

 common species after the long-leaved pine, but it grows only in 

 branch swamps, or long, narrow marshes that intersect the pine- 

 barrens, and near the creeks and rivers, where the soil is of 

 middling fertility and susceptible of improvement. 



The loblolly pine sometimes exceeds 80 feet in height, with a 

 diameter of two or three feet with a wide-spreading summit. 



Fig. 1. 



PLATE LXVIII. 

 A leaf. Fig. 2. A cone. 



Fig. 3. A seed. 



