208 FOREST CULTURE AND 
Grey Pine ; North America, up to sixty-four degrees 
north latitude. Height of tree, forty feet; in the 
cold north only a shrub. The wood is light, tough, 
and easily worked. 
Pinus Jeffreyi, Murr.—North California, on a ster- 
ile, sandy soil. A noble pine, one hundred and fifty 
feet high ; stem four feet thick. 
Pinus Kaempferi, Lamb.—Chinese Larch; also call- 
ed Golden Pine. China. This is the handsomest of 
all the larches. It is of quick growth, and attains a 
height of one hundred and fifty feet. The leaves, 
which are of a vivid green during Spring and Sum- 
mer, turn to a golden yellow in Autumn. The wood 
is very hard and durable. 
Pinus Koraiensis, Sieb. and Zuce. — China and 
Japan. A handsome tree, thirty to forty feet high, 
producing edible seeds, 
Pinus Lambertiana, Dougl.—Giant or Sugar Pine. 
North-west coast of America; mostly in great alti- 
tudes. <A lofty tree, upward of three hundred feet 
high, with a straight, naked stem of from twenty to 
sixty feet in circumference. It thrives best in sandy 
soil, and produces a soft, white, straight-grained wood, 
which for inside work is esteemed above any other 
Pine in California, and furnished in large quantities. 
The cones are eighteen inches long; the seeds are 
edible, and used as food by the natives. Would come 
best to perfection in the humid regions of our higher 
mountains. 
Pinus Laricio, Poir.—Corsican Pine. South Eu- 
rope. It attains a height of one hundred and twenty 
feet. The wood is white, toward the centre dark, 
very resinous, coarse - grained, elastic, and durable, 
