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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



There is a foreign species of hard pine that has been years more than one and one-half million trees of this 

 introduced so extensively in the northeastern part of the species have been planted upon the State Forest of Penn- 

 United States that it may be regarded as a naturalized sylvania. Most of them are making a satisfactory growth, 

 member of the forest. It is the Scotch pine, a native of and experience has shown that Scotch pine is very mod- 

 Europe, where it extends from the Sierra Nevada Moun- est in its soil requirements ; hence, well adapted to the 



tains of Southern Spain 

 and Northern Italy to lat- 

 itude 70 degrees on the 

 west coast of Norway; 

 thence, east through Lap- 

 land and Siberia, along the 

 Arctic Circle to the region 

 of the Amur, and thence 

 through Asia Minor to 

 Persia. 



Scotch pine has taken a 

 prominent part in the de- 

 velopment of European for- 

 estry. It is one of the ma- 

 jor forest trees of conti- 

 nental Europe, where it 

 has been given a forest 

 trial extending over more 

 than 100 years, and during 

 that time has shown up 

 some commendable silvical 

 traits. Its rapid growth 

 during youth has been her- 

 alded widely, and probably 

 is responsible for an over- 

 estimation of its real com- 

 mercial value. It does grow 

 rapidly in youth, but just 

 like a horse which leads at 

 the end of the first heat is 

 not always the winner of a 



race, so the forest tree which leads in height-growth at 

 the end of the first or second decade will not necessarily 

 rank first at the end of the rotation the harvest time of 

 the forest crop. 



Scotch pine has been planted widely throughout the 

 eastern part of the United .States. During the past fifteen 



HOW TO TELL THE SCOTCH PINE 



The needles are grouped in clusters of two. The cones occur 

 at the end of a season's growth. Note drooping small cone 

 at end of new growth bearing pin-featherlike clusters of 

 needles. 



sandy soil so common on 

 the mountain sides of the 

 northeast. It will grow 

 satisfactorily upon almost 

 any soil, excepting compact 

 clay and swampy or peaty 

 soils, but thrives best in a 

 deep, loose, and rich sandy 

 soil. 



Scotch pine may be dis- 

 tinguished from the pines 

 native to the northeast by 

 the reddish appearance of 

 the upper part of the trunk 

 and adjoining branches. 

 The bluish green leaves 

 which are 1J4 to 3^ inches 

 long, and the backward 

 pointing cones are also dis- 

 tinctive. It has rougher 

 twigs than the Jersey or 

 scrub pine, and its needles 

 are shorter than those of 

 the red and pitch pine, 

 longer than those of the 

 jack pine and scrub pine 

 and blunter-pointed than 

 those of the table mountain 

 pine. 

 .'Vll the trees described in this article may be classified 

 as ordinary forest trees. None of them are "super-trees" 

 l)ut all are worthy a place in our forest structure, and if 

 protected carefully and handled properly will produce 

 wood and other forest products urgently needed by man. 



THE PINE AIN EMBLEM- 



'PHE American people have grown wonderfully in 

 ' unselfish service in Christian service. I wonder if 

 we fully realize just how much we have grown ! To me 

 the Southern Pine is emblematic of our progress. 



The seed springs into life amid the shadows of the 

 ancient forest ; the plant so tiny, so delicate that it is 

 lost in the tangled grass that sucrounds it. 



With fertile soil below and a ray of sunshine from 

 above, it begins to climb and climb and climb. And one 

 day it stands alongside the sturdy oak a century old. 



But the growth of the pine is ever upward, and it 

 continues to climb heavenward until its plumed head 

 towers above every other tree of the forest, and the 

 pine looks out upon the whole world. 



A few years ago the American spirit of service was 



-BY F. ROGER MILLER 



horn beneath the shadows of Conservatism, and amid the 

 tangled bramble of Individualism and Commercialism. 

 Selfishness surrounded us on every side, and the winding 

 trail through the forest was a narrow rut left by thi' 

 wheels of Custom and Habit. 



Today our vision extends beyond the distant horizon, 

 East and West, North and South, and to the remote 

 corners of the globe. 



And we respond to every call for service, whether it 

 be from the homeland, or the forgotten places of the 

 earth. 



As the pine yields its all to the betterment of humanity 

 and to the progress of civilization, so we are learning 

 that we came into life that we might leave the world 

 better than we found it, that our value upon earth is 

 measured solely by the service we perform. 



