Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada. 11 



TliP Red Pino occasionally attains the height 

 of 80 or 100 ft. with \nt>iu\ irregular pyramidal 

 head and dark green foliage tufted in thick 

 needles at the ends of its rough hranchlets. 

 It is an upland tree, being found on dry sandy 

 soil and is distinctly northern in its distribu- 

 tion. Never forming exclusive tracts of forest 

 of any size, it is scattered in open groves 

 where conditions favor its development, and 

 many of the slopes and ridges which overlook 

 the lakes of the Adirondacks and New England 

 are beautified by the presence of this tree. 

 Its straight columnar trunks, rarely over 2 

 or .3 ft. in diameter, are vested in a reddisli 

 brown bark (hence the name) fissured into 

 broad irregular plates and ridges which flake 

 off in irregular scales. 



The wood is moderately heavy and hard and 

 is valued for the spars of vessels, piles, sills, 

 and lumber for general construction purposes. 

 A cubic foot of the dry wood weighs 30.25 Ibs.i 

 The bark is occasionally used for tanning pur- 

 poses. 



Leaves in clusters of 2 with persistent sheaths, 

 rather slender. 4-6 in. long, bearina; stomata on 

 the ventral faces containing peripheral resin- 

 ducts and 2 flbro-vascular bundles. Flowem: 

 staminate about Vj in. long, in ample clusters. 

 dark purple ; pistillate subterminal. scarlet and 

 with short stalks. Cotus subterminal, ovoid- 

 conical, alxnit 2 ill. long, subsessile, thickened at 

 the niundi'd aprx and unarmed ; seeds about V„ 

 in. long. (•onii)n>ssi"(l. triatignlar-ovoid. mottled and 

 with ample wing broadest below the middle and 

 obli<iue at apex. 



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