60 Honor's AMERICAN WOODS, 



A variety known as Var. binata, Lemmon, growing on the Islands of Santa 

 Rosa, Santa Cruz and Guadaloupe, is quite shrubby in habit of growth, lias 

 leaves mostly in pairs, and small cones about 3 in. long with scales nearly devoid 

 of tubercles. 



(The specific name, radiata, radiated, is suggested by the arrangement of the 

 cones, which are commonly in whorls about the branches and hence radiate in 

 different directions.) 



This handsome Pine occasionally attains the height of 100 ft. (30 

 m.) ? with a trunk 3 or 4 ft. (1 m.) or more in diameter, having a 

 rather thick bark of a dark purple-brown color on the surface and 

 deeply divided into broad ridges which exfoliate in irregular plate- 

 like scales. It forms a handsome round-pyramidal head of bright 

 green dense foliage in sheltered localities, but on the bluffs of the 

 coast it is very much distorted by the winds. There a tree with trunk 

 2 ft. or more in thickness may not attain a height of more than ; J< > 

 feet, but reaches far off horizontally to leeward. 



HABITAT. A tree of very limited distribution the Monterey Pine 

 is found along the Pacific Coast of California from Pescadero to San 

 Simeon Bay, with headquarters, w T e might say, at Point Pinos, jus: 

 south of Monterey Bay, where it forms a small tract of forest arid 

 attains its largest size. It extends but a few miles inland. It is 

 found in a more scrubby and somewhat altered form (var. binata) <n 

 the islands of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz and Guadaloupe. 



PHYSICAL PROPERTIES. Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle and 

 usually of very rapid growth. It is of a pale purple-brown color, 

 with abundant yellowish-white sap-wood. RjH'rifc ^Y/vnvV//, 0.4574; 

 Percentage of Ash, o.80; Relative Approximate Fn<-I Vtilnt-, o.45r><>; 

 (Coefficient of Elasticity, 97850; Mod "lux of Ituj>tur<, 74* >; 7<V.vivr- 

 ance to JLonyitmlhutI /V/WV///V, 417; /AWxA///^ to Indentation^ 1<>5; 

 Weight of a Culne foot hi r<<n<lx* _>s.51. 



FSKS. Formerly the Monterey Pine was used for lumber, but 

 now it is only used to a limited extent for fuel. The tree is verv 

 extensively planted for ornamental purposes and wind-breaks, for 

 which it is admirably suited, owing to its rapidity of growth and 

 adaptability to conditions of soil and climate. In this respect it 

 resembles the Monterey (Vpm-s, which, strangely, hails from the same 

 locality, and is its only peer in popularity for this use along the Pacific 

 ("'oast from the boundary of the British possessions to southern Cali- 

 fornia, It is also successfully planted in the southeastern states. 

 Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, and has long been popular in 

 western and southern Europe. 



