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been more extensively employed by box makers than any other wood, 

 and though it is scarcer than formerly, hundreds of millions of feet of it 

 are still used annually by box makers. Scores of millions of feet yearly 

 are demanded by the manufacturers of window shade rollers, though 

 individually the roller is a very small commodity. In this, as for 

 patterns and many other things, no satisfactory substitute for white 

 pine has been found. 



As a timber tree, it will not disappear from this country, though 

 the days of its greatest importance are past. Enormous tracts where 

 it once grew will apparently never again produce a white pine sawlog. 

 The prospect is more encouraging in other regions, and there will always 

 be a considerable quantity of this lumber in the American market, 

 though the high percentage of good grades which prevailed in the past 

 will not continue in the future. 



White pine belongs in the five needle group, that is, five leaves 

 grow in a bundle. They turn yellow and fall in the autumn of the 

 second year. The cones are slender, are from five to eleven inches 

 in length, and ripen and disperse their seeds in the autumn of the second 

 year. 



