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pine, jack pine, the jack pine trees were twice as high as the red pine and three times as high as the white pine 

 at the age of eight years. 



While the tree does not attain an exceptionally large size or produce unusually fine lumber, yet it has good 

 possibilities of profitable utilization for pulp wood, box board, mine timbers, and other low-grade material. A pulp 

 mill located in Pennsylvania, having a capacity of 150 cords per day, uses jack pine from Canada almost exclusively. 



More than 1,000,000 jack pine trees have been raised in nurseries 

 operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry. All of them 

 have been planted upon privately- owned or State-owned forest land 

 within the State. Among the oldest plantations of jack pine in Pennsyl- 

 vania is a large one located on the Jacob Nolde Estate, a few miles south 

 of Reading. The trees are growing rapidly and good financial results are 

 promised by the entire plantation. 



While the jack pine is only an ordinary tree it deserves a place in our 

 forests, and if planted upon proper sites and handled carefully, will pro- 

 duce much wood which we need and 

 can use. Let us not forget that it 

 is with trees somewhat as it is with 

 man. Most of the work in the world 

 is done by ordinary men, so most 

 of the wood will be produced by or- 

 dinary trees. 



The red pine is a valuable timber 

 tree. It has a number of common 



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names, probably the commonest one 

 being "Xorway Pine," a nainc 

 wholly out of place because it is not 

 a foreign tree, but a native of our 

 northwoods. It is said that the 

 name "Norway Pine" was given to 

 this tree by a Spanish sea captain, 

 who thought that he saw some re- 

 semblance in it to the pine trees he 

 had seen in Norway. This supposed 



resemblance caused him to suggest the inappropriate name of "Norway 

 Pine," which has persisted until today and will, no doubt, continue for 

 a long time to come. 



The next commonest name is "Red Pine." This is an appropriate 

 name, for the bark of the tree is of a reddish hue, and the heart wood 

 is usually pale reddish in color. 



This tree is equally as unfortunate as the jack pine in having an inap- 

 propriate scientific name Pinus resinosa meaning resin pine. Why it 

 was given this name is indeed strange, for its wood contains less resin 

 than any other pine. "Red Pine" is the name by which this tree should be 



known. The wood of red pine is of a superior quality and used for most purposes for which white pine is used. The 

 similarity of the wood to that of white pine is responsible for another false common name, namely, "White Pine." 

 Some dealers mix red pine wood with that of white pine, and palm off all of the material as white pine, and the con- 

 sumer, as a rule, does not know the difference. Red pine is easy to identify. It is a tree of the northwoods, extending 

 as far south as northern Pennsylvania and the Lake States, and being at its optimum in the northern part of the Lake 

 States and the southern provinces of Canada. It may reach a height of 70 or 80 feet, and a diameter of three feet. 



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