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habit. A coarse plant suitable for windbreaks and other distant planting. 

 In cultivation, it has proved useful in damp situations, in areas of poor soil, 

 and for seaside planting. On the whole, it is not considered to be a long-lived 

 tree in eastern North America. 



PINUS RESINOSA Red Pine 



Though its primary economic importance is as a timber tree, some one 

 hundred feet in height, this plant in its younger stages has distinct ornamental 

 value. It is of fairly rapid growth, has a foliage aspect of soft, dark green, and 

 is usually well furnished at the base. It transplants easily, seems indifferent 

 to the type of soil in which it is placed, and can be used either in massed back- 

 ground planting or as a specimen. As it grows older, it opens up and takes on 

 a dark, rough appearance. 



PINUS STROBUS White Pine 



This New England representative of the Soft Pines has been of considerable 

 economic importance as a timber tree, but at no time in its life history is any 

 specimen ever lacking in true landscape interest. Though everyone is familiar 

 with its garden value as a young plant, few have appreciated how in its old 

 age it displays its rugged trunk and extends its horizontal branches against 

 the sky to build up much the same stratified appearance for which the Cedars 

 of Lebanon are so famed. Though valuable for screens and hedges while 

 young, the final beauty of the mature tree would seem to be its greatest con- 

 tribution to the New England landscape. It has serious insect and disease 

 enemies. Var. FASTIGIATA is a satisfactory plant of narrow, upright habit 

 which would seem to be better than the type for certain tall screen effects. 



Pinus sylvestris SCOTS PlNE 



A variable species which seldom grows up into a symmetrical plant and has 

 little claim to garden value beyond the reddish effect of its heavy branches. 

 It is sometimes planted because of its ability to resist smoky city conditions 

 and also to populate light, sandy soils. In this regard it is probably no better 

 than the native Pinus rigida, which in most instances builds up a finer, 

 straighter bole, fully as ornamental as that of the exotic species which is re- 

 placing it. For strictly formal screens or for odd specimens, the Scots Pine 

 has two interesting upright forms. Var. watereri, a relatively low-growing, 

 dense, columnar form with short, steel-blue leaves is of value in the rock 

 garden. A taller-growing, narrow, pyramidal plant with an erect main stem 

 and upright branching is var. fastigiata. 



Pinus Thunbergii JAPANESE BLACK PlNE 



A rapid-growing, wide-spreading tree one hundred feet or more at maturity, 

 with an irregular head and brilliant green foliage. For inland situations it has 

 proved to be definitely not hardy, but it is reported to be a splendid thing on 

 exposed, wind-swept seashore places on Cape Cod. 



X PLATANUS ACERIFOLIA London Plane-Tree 



This hybrid is the so-called Oriental Plane of the trade, which has been 

 much used as a street tree because of its ability to resist smoke, dust, and other 

 city conditions. As a shade tree it does not inhibit satisfactory growth of grass 

 at its base. It also is reported to do well near the sea. Though not so hardy 

 as its American parent, P. occidentalis, it will, in warmer sections, get up to 

 some eighty feet or more and display the same mottled bark. 



Plum — See Prunus 



