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FORESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND 



On account of its rapidity of growth and freedom from insects 

 and disease, the red pine is a species that should be planted 

 extensively. 



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Fig. 15. — Experimental plantations of the Connecticut Agricultural Station. Reading 

 from left to right the species are: — red pine, Scotch pine, Austrian pine, white pine. 

 The pines are 10 years of age. 



Pitch Pine (Pinus rigidd). 



This is emphatically an eastern pine, being confined to a 

 belt along the Atlantic from southern Maine to Georgia, and 

 extending westward only to the edge of the Mississippi valley. 

 It occurs throughout New England in the extreme northern part, 

 and in the mountains. 



It is the outcast of the pines and occurs pure only on the 

 sandiest plains where other trees thrive with difficulty. On 

 better soils it is sometimes mixed with other pines and with 

 hardwoods. It is characteristic of sand plains in the Champlain 

 valley, on Cape Cod, and in the lower Connecticut valley. In 



