JERSEY PINE; SCRUB PINE (Pinus Virginiana, Mill.)- 30 

 to 40 feet. Loose, flat-topped, broadly pyramidal tree, with 

 drooping branches. Bark reddish brown, in irregular, scaly, 

 thin plates. Wood coarse-grained, brittle, pale orange to 

 white, soft, weak, but durable in soil; used for fuel, rarely 

 for lumber, pumps, water pipes, and fencing. Leaves in 2's, 

 stout, gray-green, scattered on the twigs, l to 3 inches long, 

 persistent 3 or 4 years. Flowers staminate orange-brown, 

 crowded; pistillate solitary cones, green, tinged with rose, set 

 opposite on short stalks, near middle of the new shoot. Fruits 

 oblong-conical, often curved, with red, spined scales and per- 

 sistent 3 or 4 years on the branches. Dist.: Long Island, 

 New York, to southern Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee; 

 New Jersey and south along coast to Georgia. Light sandy 

 soil, of "pine barrens" it forms forests. 



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