266 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



more long, ovate, and its scales are armed with a 

 strong, hooked prickle about a quarter of an inch 

 long. The general appearance of the Table Moun- 

 tain pine is similar, excepting its color, to that of the 

 Scotch pine ; but its height is only from 20 to 60 

 feet. The wood is not useful for timber. 

 Jersey Scrub Pine. 0ne might think, from its low, strag- 

 Pinus inojps. g nn g character, that the Jersey scrub 



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v pine was without beauty or interest. 



I am not of that opinion, however, for the bold foli- 

 age and long branches are uncommonly picturesque 

 when seen in relief against the sky, and certainly no 

 artist could wish for a wilderness more beautiful than 

 that called the " Pines " in New Jersey, where the 

 tree may be seen in its prime, clothed in a soft, warm 

 green in striking relief with the marvelously white, 

 sandy floor beneath. There is a certain rugged beauty 

 to the tree, notwithstanding an unconventional ap- 

 pearance. Its long, outstretched limbs with irregular 

 dotted outlines, its bristling warm green needles, and 

 its strongly accented, blackish trunk — these are at- 

 tractive qualities which not all the other pines possess 

 even in part. 



The needles, one and a half to barely three inches 

 long, grow two in a bunch ; they are flat, a trifle 

 twisted and curved, one sixteenth of an inch wide, 

 and of a lively, deep yellow green. The outer surfaces 



