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ing. For best development and health, these require somewhat better 

 soils than the next group, but will grow in almost any soil. 



Pinus Strobus Linn. (49), our common White Pine, a large timber 

 tree, with a fine feathery foliage, is one of the very best conifers for 





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Fig. 73. — Greek Pine. Pinus Pence Griseb. 



northern planting in specimens, groups, groves, hedges, etc. Its range 

 extends on the mountains from Canada to Georgia, but in the valley 

 it is hardly satisfactory below Mason and Dixon's line. It is best 

 suited to medium soils; in dry and poor soils it remains slender and 

 assumes a graceful tapering shape, in compact soils its form becomes 



