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Found, in dry and sandy soil from Newfoundland and the 

 northern shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the 

 Winnipeg River, through the Northern States to 

 Massachusetts, in the mountains of Northern Penn- 

 sylvania. Rare in the Eastern States, except in the 

 extreme northern parts of New England. 



An evergreen tree fifty to eighty feet high, or more, 

 with hard and durable wood, useful for all kinds of con- 

 struction. It is low-branching and regular in shape. 



In a note given in confirmation of his estimate of the 

 height of the red pine, Michaux says that when the 

 French in Quebec built the war-ship St. Lawrence, fifty 

 guns, they made its main-mast of this pine. 



Fig. 83. — Yellow Pine, Short-leaved Pine, Spruce Pine. P. 

 ecpinata, Mill. P. //litis, Michx. 



Leaves, simple ; indeterminate in position because of 

 their closeness, but arranged along the branches in 

 two-leaved sheathed bunches. (On vigorous young 

 shoots the leaves are sometimes clustered in threes, 

 not on the old branches.) 



Leaf, needle-shape, two and a half to five inches long, 

 usually four to five inches ; dark green ; slender ; 

 rounded on the outer side; on the inner side, 

 hollowed. 



Cone, about two to three inches long, in old trees scarcely 

 more than one and a half inches long ; the smallest 

 of the American Pine cones ; surface roughened by 

 the slightly projecting ends of the scales ; not grow- 

 ing in large clusters. Scales, tipped with a weak 

 prickle pointing outward. 



