CHAPTER XI 
A LIST OF FIFTY IMPORTANT AMERICAN FOREST TREES, 
TWENTY-FIVE CONIFERS AND TWENTY-FIVE HARD- 
Woops 
Any of the species mentioned below are worthy 
of encouragement in the regions in which they are 
native. 
The following descriptions are selected from 
“Trees of the United States Important in Forestry ” 
(H. R. Document No. 181, page 51): 
CONIFERS 
1. Wuire Prine (Pinus strobus Linn.). Height, 
120 feet +; diameter, 3 feet +. Northern; wide 
range, forming forests to Southern mountains. Best 
development in region of the Great Lakes. Best on 
light, sandy, fresh, deep soil, but successful on a 
large range of soils from dry to moist. Rapid grower; 
endures some shade; hardy. The most important 
conifer of the United States; good quality, however, 
only in centenarians. Is best mixed with deciduous 
trees; seed of rather slow but high percentage of ger- 
mination; plant two-year-old seedlings, or sow. 
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