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TREES GROWING IN SANDY SOIL. 



kindling wood. The colour of the wood is a deep, rich orange, 

 yellow or light red, and it is more ornamental than that fur- 

 nished by any other of the pines. 

 Its juices also are valuable, and 

 supply the greater part of our 

 turpentine, resin and tar. In the 

 " turpentine country " of Georgia 

 it is truly a pathetic sight to see 

 these trees when girdled and 

 bruised from the process of box- 

 ing. Their juices have then been 

 drawn off and sent to be distilled. 

 Even before the Revolution this 

 making of turpentine was a large 

 industry in this country. For 

 many years the trees exist it can 

 hardly be called living and some- 

 times a small tuft of green at 

 their top is all that distinguishes 

 them from those that are dead. 

 Were it not for the long continued activity of their heart-wood 

 and the healing salve of their balsam they would have neces- 

 sarily succumbed. Through its extensive usefulness, however, 

 the tree seems to be doomed by the axe. Even the young 

 trees when they occur among objectionable undergrowth are 

 set on fire that they may clear it away, and their ashes improve 

 and fertilize the land. At Christmas time also in the south 

 many fall every year for the decoration of houses and churches. 



Plnus palustris. 



SHORT-LEAVED PINE. YELLOW PINE. SPRUCE PINE. 

 BULL- PINE. {Plate CX XX VIII.) 



Plnus echinata. 



HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



-40-120 feet. New York to Florida May, June, 



westward to Kansas. 



FAMILY SHAPE 



Pine. Pyramidal; branches, 

 spreading, regular. 



Bark : greyish brown; rough; much broken into plates. Branchlets : green 

 or purplish; stout; glaucous when young. Leaves : three to five inches long; 



