SILVICULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS 



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lumber. The wood is somewhat the stronger of the two. It is 

 chiefly used for dimension stuff and house construction, also for 

 boxes and shingles. 





By permission of the Connecticut Slate Forester 



Fig 5 Experimental plantations of the Connecticut Agricultural Station. Reading 

 from left to right the species are: red pine, Scotch pine, Austrian pine, white pine. 

 The pines are 10 years of age. 



Norway pine stumpage of old growth has sold as high as $12 

 per thousand feet on a national forest in Michigan. In the 

 northeast it is seldom separated from white pine. 



On account of its rapidity of growth and freedom from insects 

 and serious diseases, 1 the red pine is a species that should be 

 planted extensively. 



PITCH PINE (Pinus rigida). 



This is emphatically an eastern pine, being confined to a belt 

 along the Atlantic from southern Maine to Georgia, and extend- 



i The leaves of the red pine are sometimes attacked by a rust which has as its 

 alternate host the goldenrod. 



