4 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Georgia; forming nearly pure forests on sandy drift soils, or more often in small groves 

 scattered in forests of deciduous-leaved trees on fertile well-drained soil, also on the banks 

 of streams, or on river flats, or rarely in swamps. 



Fig. 1 



Largely planted as an ornament of parks and gardens in the eastern states, and in many 

 European countries, where it grows with vigor and rapidity; occasionally used in forest 

 planting in the United States. 



2. Pinus monticola D. Don. White Pine. 



Leaves blue-green, glaucous, whitened by 2-6 rows of ventral and often by dorsal 

 stomata, mostly persistent .3 or 4 years. Flowers : male yellow; female pale purple. Fruit 



Fig. 2 



5'-ll' long, shedding its seeds late in the summer or in early autumn; seeds narrowed at 

 the ends, $' long, pale red-brown mottled with black, about one third as long as their wings. 



