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and verticillate; the bark is nearly smooth; the cones are cyl- 

 inderic, long", and generally slightly curved. 



The average size of the few specimens we have remaining 

 in the experimental plat is: height, 14 feet; circumference, 12 

 inches. All of them have an unthrifty look and it is only a ques- 

 tion of a few years when all will be dead. From our experience 

 in the new forest plantation, the White Pine, among several 

 species of several thousand specimens each, is the hardest to 

 successfully transplant. 



The wood of the White Pine, as every one knows, is one of 

 the most valuable of timbers; it is nearly white, soft, but com- 

 pact; weight per cubic foot, 24 pounds. 



Scotch Pines* (Piints sylvestris L.) The behavior of the 

 Scotch Pines is far more satisfactory than that of the White. 

 Their growth has been much more rapid and robust, and their 

 appearance is much thriftier. Where both trees thrive, this 

 species is not so handsome as the former; it has harsher, 

 coarser foliage, which is of a less pleasing color, the leaves 

 being of a silvery shade, while those of the White Pine are 

 light blueish green. The Scotch Pine, is, too, less regular 

 in habit of growth, and specimens of the species vary 

 much in appearance. But, for this region, there is no question 

 as to which is the better of the two. The Scotch is far and 

 away superior to the other in almost all respects. In the plant- 

 ing of the young conifers mentioned in the preceding para- 

 graph, the Scotch Pines proved to be the most easily trans- 

 planted of any, and up to the present time have been the least 

 aifected by drouth and heat of any a splendid quality for this 

 climate. 



The chief botanical characters of the Scotch Pine are: 

 leaves, two in a bundle, short and coarse, silvery green, and 

 borne in abundance; the bark is rather rough; the branches 

 are ascending and clustered, with a tendency to die out at the 

 bottom of the tree. In habit it is inclined to grow tall and ro- 

 bust. The cones are short, pyramidal in shape, with loose 

 scales. This is the common pine of Northern Europe, where 

 it is much valued for timber and for park planting. Our speci- 

 mens average 18 feet in height, and 16 inches in circumference. 



All of the nurserymen of the State with whom I have 

 talked, think more highly of the Scotch than of the White Pine, 

 but some prefer the Austrian (Pinus austriaca L.) to either. 



