54 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 



White Pine, Pimis strobiis. This magnificent tree, which in 

 colonial clays alone had the honor of being marked with the 

 broad arrow of King George, formerly grew in great abundance 

 in this neighborhood, especially along the river and brook val- 

 leys. Forty years ago great pines flourished in what are now 

 compact portions of the city, along the ravines, and upon Ray, 

 Mile, Christian, Cemetery, and Cohas brooks, while the various 

 highways were lined with primitive forests. A group of huge 

 pines occupied a ravine on the south of Granite street, now the 

 site of wholesale warehouses, and more than fifty years ago the 

 children of the "cold-water army," in what was known as the 

 Washingtonian movement, held a picnic in this grove. A little 

 later the children of the Unitarian sunday-school, not standing 

 in fear of ghosts, enjoyed a picnic in the then beautiful grove 

 of the Valley cemetery ; in both these celebrations the writer 

 was an interested and hungry participant. 



Pitch Pine, Finns rigida. Fifty years ago the sand-plains of 

 Derryfield were covered with a dense growth of these trees, ex- 

 tending over large areas to the north, south and east, as well as 

 upon the plains west of the river. Nearly the whole section not 

 actually built upon or under tillage, was invaded by pines. The 

 growth reached to Lowell street, immediately back of the first 

 high school building, over nearly all the territory east of Pine, 

 and rabbits were hunted and trapped in what is now Tremont 

 common. Parker was murdered in the pines just east of Beech 

 street, and a man tired of living in the woods hung himself on 

 Monument square. 



Norway or Red Pine, Pimis resinosa. This beautiful variety 

 was once not uncommon, but is now rarely seen hereabout. It is 

 remarkably free from knots and grows "as straight as a loon's 

 hind-leg." 



White Spruce, Abies alba. Formerly existing upon Bald hill 

 and the Uncanoonucks, but now exterminated. 



Black Spruce, Abies nigra. Never plentiful here, and now 

 scarce, growing only as a shrub. 



