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the very opposite to our wide-stemmed, heavily 

 branched, broad-leaved, deciduous trees. Dwarfed 

 and crowded together in belts as we often see 

 Scotch pines, they look wretched ; but old and 

 well grown trees, with the sun setting on their 

 red and mottled stems and the blue haze of their 

 foliage, are magnificent objetfs. 



" That pine of mountain race, 

 The fir, the Scotch fir, never out of place." 



Clinychill. 



A fertile soil is not necessarily most congenial 

 to the pine ; frequentlv it appears to grow more 

 freely in dry gravelly soil. Most of our red pine 

 timber is drawn from Russia, Poland, and North 

 Germany, and is known in commerce under the 

 name of its port of shipment — Riga, Memel, 

 Danzig, Stettin, c^c. " The various kinds of 

 " wood so denominated," it is explained in a 

 work of reference, " are not botanically different 

 " species, but the timber of the same tree, grown 

 " and shipped from different districts. Broadly 

 " speaking, all the red and yellow timber coming 

 " from the Baltic ports is really the wood of 

 " P. svlvestris, whilst what is known as white 

 " deal is that of the common spruce, Picea 

 " excclsa." 



The only red pine timber that can fairly rival 

 the best Scotch pine exported from Memel is the 

 pitch pine, P. paliistris, of the Southern States 



