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from the New World is that known in the home trade as yellow- 

 pine. This is derived from the American white pine (Pinus 

 Strobus), a tree better known to planters in this country as 

 Weymouth pine. The timber of this tree is called white pine 

 in America, and of the coniferous timber which we import 

 from Canada it forms by far the largest proportion. It is much 

 used for internal finishing in house-building, and on account 

 of its fine grain and close texture, its non-liability to warp, 

 and its large dimensions, it can be used for many purposes 

 for which the Baltic timbers are quite unsuited. In fact, in 

 general joinery and cabinetmaking no other coniferous timber 

 occupies so important a place. 



The heaviest and strongest of the coniferous timbers we 

 import is pitch pine, a timber very similar in character to 

 some of the strong, hard, resinous varieties of the Scots pine 

 of some parts of Europe. It is mostly imported in the hewn 

 state, and it is used for a considerable variety of purposes, 

 but chiefly in engineering works, carriage building, etc., and 

 in house-building for beams, open roofing, stairs, etc. Pitch 

 pine is a timber regarding the nomenclature of which a good 

 deal of ambiguity exists, and even in a standard work like 

 Laslett's Timber and Timber Trees, the author falls into 

 error regarding the identity of the species from which the 

 timber of commerce is derived. In North America the tree 

 which is called pitch pine is Pinus rigida, a tree which yields 

 a coarse kind of timber which is never exported, but the pitch 

 pine of commerce is the produce of Pinus palusti'is, the long- 

 leaved pine of the Southern States, where it is also known by 

 the names of yellow pine, red pine, turpentine tree, and some 

 others. In the home market this timber is known as Georgia 

 pitch pine, from the fact that most of it is shipped from the 

 ports of that State, and it has taken to a lai-ge extent the 

 place of the heavy Scots pine timbers of the Memel and Riga 

 trade. 



The least important of the pine timbers which we import 

 from North America is that of the red pine {Pinus resinosa). 

 This tree may be said to be the representative of the European 

 Scots pine in the New World, and its timber is used for practi- 

 cally the same purposes as the timber of that tree. In Canada 

 this tree is called Norway pine, and it is the yellow pine of the 

 Nova Scotians. It is not native to Europe, and the name 



