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TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 



''.'.'^t<if*i>ii 



Pinus Strbbus. 



and receives a high polish, 

 constructions it is much used. 



1772, in New England, New 

 York and New Jersey in 

 America no person shall 

 cut or destroy any white 

 pine trees, not growing in 

 any township or its bounds, 

 without his Majesty's li- 

 cense." The name Wey- 

 mouth pine was given to 

 it in England, and was to 

 commemorate Lord Wey- 

 mouth. 



To-day the tree is in 

 danger of extermination 

 from the axe, for it is the 

 most valuable timber tree 

 of Eastern America. Its 

 light, soft and straight- 

 grained wood is free from 

 knots and nearly so from 

 resin. It is easily worked 

 For carpentry and various 

 In low, fertile soil the tree 



grows, often forming large forests, and also in sandy places. It 

 appears most conspicuous in groves of deciduous-leaved trees, 

 and in parts of New England it now occupies extensive tracts 

 of abandoned farm land. 



HEMLOCK. {Plate CXXII.) 

 Tsiiga Canadensis. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Pine. Conical; branches, 60-80-100 feet. New Brunswick west- April, May. 

 horizontal, drooping. ward to the Gt. Lakes 



and southward. 



Bark: reddish or grey; scaly, and becoming more rough and furrowed 

 with age. Leaves: linear; half an inch long; simple; growing flatly on little 

 petioles, singly, and opposite to each other up and down the branchlets; nar- 

 row; blunt at the apex and sometimes minutely toothed. When young light 



