366 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



easy to work, very durable, and much esteemed for masts, bridges, 

 frames of buildings, windows, ceilings, flooring, oars, cabinet-work 

 and organ -pipes, also much used for matches. Indeed, its use is 

 far more diversified than that of any other tree in North- America 

 [Dawsoii] . The tree yields American turpentine and galipot. Mr. 

 Cecil Clay cut exceptionally 40,000 feet of its timber 011 an acre of 

 ground in the Virginian mountains. The sap-wood is remarkably 

 thin. The tree endures the climate of Norway to lat. 61 15' [Prof. 

 Schuebeler]. Maximum-rate of circumferential stem-growth in 

 Nebraska 2f feet in 12 years [Governor Furnas]. The wood can 

 advantageously be converted into paper-material as an admixture 

 to other substances ; in Europe the wood of P. picea and P. Abies 

 is preferentially used for this purpose. See also in reference to 

 this and other N. Amer. Pines, Michaux and Nuttall's Sylva. 



Pinus Taeda, Linn*'. 



Frankincense- or Loblolly-Pine. Florida, Carolina and Virginia, 

 westward to Texas, in moist loamy-sandy soil, attaining a height of 

 about 120 feet. Adapted to a wide range of sites ; light-needing 

 [Farlow]. The timber is liked for pumps, but liable to warp and 

 decay in buildings on exposure [Sargent]. Stems sought for 

 masts. The tree yields turpentine in good quantity, though of 

 inferior quality, and exudes much resin ; it likes regions near the 

 coast ; hence can be well utilized for raising fir-forests on shore- 

 lands, especially as this pine takes readily possession of cleared 

 forest-ground, and by quick growth overpowers other young trees 

 [Prof. C. Mohr]. 



Pinus tenuifolia, Bentham. 



Mexico, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, forming dense forests. 

 Height of this pine to nearly 100 feet ; stem to 5 feet in diameter. 



Pinus Teocote, Chamisso and Schlechtendal. 



Okote- or Torch-Pine. Mexico, from 5,000 to 11,000 feet above 

 the sea-level. Tree often to 150 feet high ; stem to 4 feet in 

 diameter. It yields the Brea-turpentine, from which locally resin 

 and oil of turpentine are obtained ; the wood is remarkably durable. 



Pinus Tiiunbergrii, Parlatore. 



Japan. A tall pine with wide ramifications. Closely cognate to 

 P. Massoniana. The most common of all trees in Japan, called 

 there the " Matsu " or " Kouromatsou." It attains a stem-diameter 

 of 6 feet, a height of 100 feet, and reaches an age of several 

 centuries. It prefers sandy soil. Splendid for avenues [Rein]. It 

 supplies a resinous, tough and durable wood, used for buildings and 

 furniture, but suitable only for indoor-work [Veitch]. The roots, 

 when burned with the oil of Brassica orientalis, furnish the Chinese 

 lampblack. 



