WHITE PINE. 



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A growth of gums usnally follows the cypress after lumbering. 

 Large specimens have swollen butts which are often hollow. The 



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Distribution of the WHITE PINE 

 (Finns strobns, /.) 



FF'"' Areas coniair.ing ir.ernliantable CYPRESS 

 li u'r i i (Taxodiiim distichum, Rick^j 



Botanical distribution of tlie CYPRESS. 



timber has frequently small hollows and rotten spots scattered 

 through apparently sound logs. 



The leaves are deciduous, Hat, linear, and in two rows on the 

 slender branchlets. The male and female flow^ers are borne on 

 the same tree; the male in drooping flexible catkins, the female 

 in ovoid catkins, singly or in small clusters. The fruit is a small 

 dark brown globular cone with thick scales. There are many 

 deeply penetrating lateral roots, and long superficial roots from 

 which the "cypress knees" grow to a height of one to four feet. 



The wood is light, soft, close and straight-grained, not strong, 

 compact, easily worked, and very durable in contact with the 

 soil; light or dark brown in color; the sapwood nearly white. 

 The lumber is known commercially in two varieties, the black and 

 white cy).ress, .of which the former is heavier, harder, and more 

 durable. It is used for construction, cooperage, railroad ties, 

 fencing, shingles, water pipes, and interior finish. 



Mu(;h of the cypress has been removed along the larger streams 

 and fr )m the more accessible swamps in the northeastern counties 

 for the manufacture of lumber and shingles. Large quantities,, 

 however, are still standing in the State. 



Pinus strobus, Linnaeus. 



(W^HITE PINE.) 



A large tree, of the first commercial importance, with horizontal 



