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or to think that it is other than attractive. Over fields where 

 the soil has been exhausted by succeeding crops it spreads 

 itself rapidly and lends a sturdy, wholesome look to the land- 

 scape. Sometimes it forms dark forests. One of its strong 

 points of individuality is that its branches are smooth ; those of 

 other pines are usually scaly. In the Atlantic states it rarely 

 grows to a great height. 



The reddish-yellow wood of the Jersey pine is resinous and 

 not very strong. It is brittle and pithy in substance, and for 

 these reasons is of rather inferior value. 



LONG-LEAVED PINE. SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE. 



GEORGIA PINE. {Plate CXXXVJI.) 



Plnus paltistris. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Pine. Head y rounds open; jo-80-120 yeet. North Carolina south- March, April., 

 trunk, slender. ward to Texas. 



Bark: orange-brown, separating into thin scaly plates. Leaves : ten to fifteen 

 inches long; dark bluish green; simple; growing closely in bunches of three, 

 and forming thick tufts at the ends of the branches; sheaths from one to one 

 and a quarter inches long; slender; flexible. Cones: six to ten inches long; 

 light brown; cylindrical; terminal; erect. Scales : thick, with small, blunt spines 

 at their ends. 



To those that have walked through the great forests formed 

 by this tree and by, among others, the white cedars and live oaks, 

 there must always cling a memory of the impression made by 

 its masses of long, flexible needles and its beautiful cones. 

 About it there is the same appearance of gravity and aloofness 

 which characterises so many of the pines. It seems as though 

 they were less playful, more reserved than the deciduous-leaved 

 trees ; as though even Nature did not venture to dress and 

 undress them just whenever she chose. 



Of the pitch pines this great tree is the most valuable, and 

 so extensively has its wood been utilized that the very name 

 Georgia pine is suggestive of commerce. Viaducts, bridges, 

 trestle-work and great quantities of railroad ties are made 

 from it. Even its stumps are cut up and sold in bundles for 



