Winter buds (le.ives cut away to show hu-i- 1 



THE TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE {Pinus pungens) 



The leaves arc in z's, short, stout, twisted and blue green. The tree makes a scraggly growth on the barren slopes 



Appalachian mountains 



Winter hiids (leaves cut away to show butls) ! 



THE PITCH PINE (Pinus rigida) 



This picturesque pine of the swamps and arid coast plains of the East has leaves in 3's in persistent black sheaths. Tl 



is in reddish-brown plates > 



