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ture, and be spread out where they will dry; this causes 
theim to open and allow the seeds to fall out. Sow the 
seeds in frames or in a shady place, either in fall or spring. 
Fig. 45 shows a young pine as it appears when it first 
comes above ground; at this time they are very delicate, 
and require much care to prevent them from being burned 
by the sun or destroyed by giving too much water. 
Pinus Banxsitana (Northern Scrub Pine). — Leaves 
short, stout, rigid, in twos; cones one to two inches long, 
scales not pointed; a small tree or large shrub, of no value. . 
Pinus 1nors (Jersey Scrub Pine).—Leaves two to three 
inches long, in twos; cones obovate conical, two to three 
inches long, scales tipped with a sharp, stout thorn about 
one sixteenth of an inch in length ; tree quite handsome 
when young, if grown in good soil, but becoming strag- 
gling when old or when grown in poor, dry, sterile 
hills and barrens, where it is usually most common; gen- 
erally a small tree, but occasionally a group will be found 
that are forty to fifty feet high; New Jersey and southward. 
Pinus puncEnS (Zable Mountain Pine).—Leaves stout, 
two to three inches long, in twos; cones same form as the 
last, but double the size; tree of small size, seldom over 
fifty feet ; found in Virginia and along the Blue Ridge to 
Alabama, also in some parts of North Carolina, as I have 
received cones from the latter State several years since, 
where it was said to be quite abundant on the high table- 
lands. 
Pinus restnosa (fed Pine).—Leaves long, somewhat 
cylindrical, five to six inches, in twos, very dark green ; 
cones conical, two inches long, scales not pointed ; a large 
