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Forests and Trees 



The leaves are long, bluish-green, and often arranged in 

 tassels on new growth on the ends of the branches. The cones 

 are long, very slightly curved and drooping, sometimes in 

 clusters. They are mature in July or August of the second year. 

 Its range covers the whole of eastern North America as far 

 north as Lake Nipigon and westward to the southeastern 

 corner of the province of Manitoba. Ow- 

 ing to depletion by the lumberman and 

 the fires which followed in his wake, there 

 is very little, if any, of the original forest 

 left ; but throughout a considerable part 

 of the range re-foresting by nature is going 

 on rapidly. The forestry departments of 

 the different provinces are now doing good 

 work in lessening the waste by fire, and 

 there is good reason to hope that at least 

 a limited supply of the timber furnished by 

 this valuable tree may be permanent. 

 "No other tree," says John Burroughs, "is so widely useful 

 in the mechanic arts, or so beneficent in the economy of nature." 

 Recently this species has been attacked by a disease which 

 has killed the white pines of Europe, and, if not checked, it will 

 destroy all the pines with five leaves to the fascicle on this 

 continent. The forestry departments of Ontario and Quebec, 

 however, with the assistance of the Forestry Branch of the 

 Dominion, are doing all that is possible to prevent this disease 

 spreading, and we hope that a tragedy in tree life may be 

 avoided, and that to future generations this noble tree will not 

 be merely a tradition or a record. 



2. WESTERN WHITE PINE. Pinus monticola. Douglas. 



This is the species which is known as white pine in British 

 Columbia and the Pacific Coast States. It so closely resembles 

 the eastern white pine that for a long time it was regarded as 



FIG. i. White Pine. 



