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Pond Pine. Sometimes it is found on the sea coast. 

 Height thirty or forty feet, with a slender trunk. 

 Leaves six inches long. It is useless as timber, but will 

 be found valuable for planting in swampy situations. 



PINUS STROBUS. Linnceus. 

 (Weymouth Pine.) 



A tall tree, often two hundred feet high, indigenous 

 to North America. It is valuable for planting in cold 

 situations, but thrives best in a tolerably rich soil. 

 In general form it is pyramidal, especially in young 

 trees, with a remarkably taper trunk, the branches 

 regularly verticillate. Leaves about four inches long, 

 of a palish green. Of the varieties in cultivation, the 

 most distinct are alba, and brevifotia. 



PINUS SYLVESTKIS. 



(Scotch Fir.) 

 SYN. Pinus altaica. Ledebour. 



This well-known tree needs little description. There 

 are many varieties in cultivation, of which the prin- 

 cipal are communis, or white-wooded, rubra, or red- 

 wooded, and latifoUa, or broad-leaved. 



PINUS TEOCOTE. Chamissa and Scklecht. 



(Teocote Pine.) 

 A tall tree, from Mount Orizaba, in Mexico. 



