WHITE PINE. 



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A growth of gums usually follows the cypress after lumbering. 

 Large specimens have swollen butts which are often hollow. The 



;%v Distribution of the WHITE PINE 

 (Finos strobus, /-.) 



o:iUi:iing merchantable CYPRESS 

 (Taxodiuin distichum. Rich.) 



Botanical distribution of the CYPEESS. 



timber has frequently small hollows and rotten spots scattered 

 through apparently sound logs. 



The leaves are deciduous, flat, linear, and in two rows on the 

 slender branchlets. The male and female flowers are borne on 

 the same tree; the male in drooping flexible catkins, the female 

 in ovoid catkins, singly or in small clusters. The fruit is a small 

 dark brown globular cone with thick scales. There are many 

 deeply penetrating lateral roots, and long superficial roots from 

 which the "cypress knees " 'grow to a height of one to four feet. 



The wood is light, soft, close arid straight-grained, not strong, 

 compact, easily worked, and very durable in contact with the 

 soil; light or dark brown in color; the sapwood nearly white. 

 The lumber is known commercially in two varieties, the black and 

 white cypress, of which the former is heavier, harder, and more 

 durable. It is used for construction, cooperage, railroad ties, 

 fencing, shingles, water pipes, and interior finish. 



Much of the cypress has been removed along the larger streams 

 and fr mi the more accessible swamps in the northeastern counties 

 for the manufacture of lumber and shingles. Large quantities,, 

 however, are still standing in the State. 



Pimis strobus, Linnreus. 



(WHITE PINE.) 

 A large tree, of the first commercial importance, with horizontal 



