The Pine Family 125 



RED PINES 



Trees with hard resinous wood and leaves in groups of two to the 

 fascicle. 



6. RED OR NORWAY PINE. Pinus resinosa. Solander. 



The red pine is a tall, graceful tree, often rising to a height 

 of one hundred and fifty feet, with a straight, somewhat 

 slender trunk and pale reddish bark. The leaves are from three 

 to six inches long, dark green, slender and flexible. On the 

 older branches they are grouped in grace- 

 ful tassels at the ends of the somewhat 

 drooping stems. 



The cones are about two inches long, 

 horizontal, not at all or very slightly 

 curved, and shiny brown at maturity. 

 They open and shed their seeds early in 

 the fall of the second year, but the old 

 cones usually stay on the branch another 



season. The wood is reddish, hard, 



FIG. 4. Red Pine, 

 strong and resinous, arranged in very 



conspicuous rings. It is not as easily worked as that of the 

 white pine, but on account of its great strength, straightness and 

 freedom from knots, is very valuable as building material. 



The range of this tree in Canada is identical with that of 

 the eastern white pine, although it does not extend so far south. 

 Its western limit is the southeastern part of Manitoba. 

 Throughout this range it grows along with the white pine, the 

 two often standing in mixed growths. It is easily distinguished 

 from the latter by its more slender graceful trunk and reddish 

 bark. 



7. JACK PINE. Pinus Banksiana. Lambert. 



This is a small tree, seldom rising above eighty feet and 

 usually much less, being reduced almost to a shrub at its northern 



