168 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
ciously, and cones ten years old can be found in abun- 
dance on the old stems and branches. The cones of this 
species, and probably many others, are produced on the 
new wood, making their appearance about the first of 
June. As the new growth proceeds, the cones are carried 
forward, as it were, so that when the shoot has finished its 
growth, the cones will be found about midway between 
the base and terminal point. Generally there will be 
lateral branches produced just above the cones, appear- 
ing as though produced on the terminal point of the pre- 
vious year’s growth. Sometimes two sets of cones will 
form on the same shoot, one several inches above the other. 
I have one before me now (June 20th, 1866) ; the first set 
on this season’s growth is six inches from the base; the 
next eight inches above; in both cases there are no leaves 
on the stem for an inch or more above the cones, leaving a 
bare spot at the point where the cones are produced. It 
is a large tree, with resinous wood. New England to New 
Jersey and southward. 
Pinus rapa (Old Field Pine, Loblolly Pine).—Leaves 
very long and slender, six to ten inches, in threes; cones 
three to five inches long, scales with short, straight spine; 
tree frora sixty to one hundred feet high; Virginia and 
southward ; not hardy at the North. 
Pinus sErotTina (Pond Pine) and P. AvsTRALis are 
both Southern species that are very similar to the last; of 
no value for cultivation at the North. 
Prxvs Srrosus ( White Pine, Weymouth Pine).—Leaves 
slender, dark green, three to six inches long, five in a 
‘sheath—fig. 49 ;.cones four to six inches long, usually pene 
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