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also yields a fine white resin and the Strassburg tur- 
pentine, similar to the Venetian. 
Pinus Abies, var. Cephalonica, Parlatore. (Pinus 
Cephalonica, Endl. )—Greece, three to four thousand 
feet above the sea. A tree sixty feet high, with a 
stem circumference of ten feet. The wood is very 
hard and durable, and much esteemed for building. 
Pinus Abies, var. Nordmanniana, Parlatore. (P. 
Nordmanniana, Steven.)— Crimea and Circassia, six 
thousand feet above the sea. This is one of the most 
imposing firs, attaining a height of one hundred 
feet, with a perfectly straight stem. It furnishes a 
valuable building timber, The Silver Fir is desirable 
for our mountain forests. 
Pinus Alba, Ait,—White Spruce. From Canada to 
Carolina, up to the highest mountains. It resembles 
P. picea, but is smaller, at most fifty feet high. Eli- 
gible for our alpine country. 
Pinus Alcocquiana, Parlatore.—Japan, at an eleva- 
tion of six to seven thousand feet. A fine tree, with 
very small, blue-green leaves ; the wood is used for 
light household furniture. 
Pinus amabilis, Doug]. —California Silver Fir. North 
Carolina, at an elevation of four thousand feet. A 
handsome fir, two hundred feet high, circumference 
of stem twenty-four feet; the stem is naked up to one 
hundred feet. : 
Pinus Australis, Michx.—Southern or Swamp Pine. 
Also called Georgia, Yellow, Pitch or Broom Pine, in 
the Southern States of North America. The tree 
attains a height of seventy feet, It furnishes a good 
timber for furniture and building. It is this tree 
which forms chiefly the extensive pine-barrens of the 
