284 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Pinus resinosa, Solander. 



Red Pine. North- America, principally Canada and Nova Scotia r 

 but extending to Pennsylvania. It attains a height of 150 feet, the 

 stem a diameter of 2 feet. It is of rapid growth, and on account of 

 the red-barked stem very ornamental (Sargent); delights in sandy 

 soil; the wood is hard, fine-grained, heavy and durable, not very 

 resinous, and is used for ship-building and structures of various kinds. 



Pinus rigida, Miller.* 



American Pitch-Pine. From New England to Virginia. It grows 

 to a height of 80 feet; the timber from gravelly or rocky soil heavy 

 and resinous, from damp alluvial soil light and soft; used for building; 

 but the tree is principally important for its yield of turpentine, resin, 

 pitch and tar. It is suitable for sea-shores; it will also grow in the 

 driest localities, as well as in swamps, nor is it readily susceptible to 

 injury from fire. Professor Meehan mentions this as the most rapid 

 grower among North-East American pines. With P. Taeda among 

 the most oleous and resinous pines, to be disseminated million-fold in 

 such extensive malarial regions as cannot be readily or profitably 

 drained, to subdue miasmata by the copious evolution of the double 

 oxyde of hydrogen and ozone. The first trees in Australia were 

 reared by the writer of this work. 



Pinus rubra t Lambert. 



The Red Spruce. North-Eastern America. Allied to P. alba and 

 P. nigra. Wood reddish -brown. 



Pinus Sabiniana, Douglas.* 



Californian Nut-Pine or White Pine. From California to the 

 Rocky Mountains. Height to 150 feet; stem frequently 5 feet in 

 diameter. The wood is pale and soft;. according to Dr. Gibbons it is 

 hard and durable when seasoned, with close and twisted grain, and 

 contains much resin; for fuel, when well distributed heat is requisite, 

 far surpassing all other Californian woods in value; yields an abun- 

 dant supply of excellent turpentine, and thence again by distillation a 

 superior oil (Dr. Kellogg). The clustered heavy cones attain a 

 length of one foot. The seeds are edible; they are produced in great 

 profusion, and constituted formerly a large portion of the winter-food 

 of the native tribes. Proves even in dry localities of Victoria to be of 

 quick growth. 



Pinus selenolepis, Parlatore. 



Japan, up to elevations of 7,000 feet. This fir rises to a height of 

 about 150 feet. It is known also as Veitch's Fir. 



Pinus serotina, Michaux. 



Pond-Pine. Southern States of Eastern North-America, in 

 morassy soil, principally near the sea-coast. It gets to be 50 feet 

 high. The wood is soft. Of importance as antimalarian for fever- 

 swamps. Regarded by Prof. Meehan as an extreme form of P. rigida. 



