The Pines 



From Michigan to Minnesota the grey pine acts as a nurse 

 tree to the seedlings of P. resinosa on denuded lands. Later the 

 scrub "cleans" the young trees of lower limbs, greatly adding 

 to their timber value. 



Strange notions prevail in certain sections concerning tnis 

 weird-looking pine tree. . Women dare not pass within ten feet 

 of a tree, and men also give it a wide berth. Cattle browsing 

 near it are fatally stricken; the tree is believed to poison the 

 ground it shadows. One who believes current reports of this tree 

 will destroy every one growing on his land; but he dare not 

 chop them down. Each must be burned like a witch, by making 

 a funeral pyre all around it. Every misfortune that overtakes a 

 family is laid at the foot of the grey pine, as long as there is one 

 left on the place. 



EXOTIC PINES 



We are all European immigrants, once or twice removed. 

 Our craving for things imported is an appetite inherited from our 

 Colonial ancestors. Our horticulture owns its European paren- 

 tage. The early settlers brought trees and flowers from the old 

 country. They transplanted the old home, as far as could be, to 

 the New World. European evergreens came in as a matter of 

 course. Even species native to our west coast were brought 

 into Eastern gardens first by way of European nurseries. 



Oriental pines are coming in, making valuable contributions 

 to the list in cultivation from Europe. Our native pines are be- 

 ing " discovered," horticulturally, and dissemination of species 

 is widening the range of all. It is a small and unpretentious park 

 indeed that does not show pines from every northern continent. 

 The European pines most widely planted in the eastern 

 United States are the Scotch and Austrian pines. They are de- 

 pendable trees, hardy, vigorous, not particular as to soil and ex- 

 posure good for protective and ornamental planting even on 

 the prairies where hot, dry winds blow and for weeks no rain 

 may fall. 



The Austrian Pine is a hardy variety, Atistriaca, of the 

 Corsican pine {P. Laiicio, Poir.), of southern Europe. It is a 

 sombre tree, darker green than any other evergreen except tne 



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