10 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Pinus resinosa, Ait. 

 RED PINE. NORWAY PINE. 



Habitat and Range. In poor soils; sandy plains, dry 

 woods. 



Newfoundland and New Brunswick, throughout Quebec and 

 Ontario, to the southern end of Lake Winnipeg. 



Maine, common, plains, Brunswick (Cumberland county); 

 woods, Bristol (Lincoln county) ; from Amherst (western part 

 of Hancock county) and Clifton (southeastern part of Penob- 

 scot county) northward just east of the Penobscot river the 

 predominant tree, generally on dry ridges and eskers, but in 

 Greenbush and Passadumkeag growing abundantly on peat 

 bogs with black spruce ; hillsides and lower mountains about 

 Moosehead, scattered ; New Hampshire, ranges with the 

 pitch pine as far north as the White mountains, but is less 

 common, usually in groves of a few to several hundred acres 

 in extent ; Vermont, less common than P. Strobus or P. rigida, 

 but not rare ; Massachusetts, still more local, in stations 

 widely separated, single trees or small groups; E/hode Island, 

 occasional; Connecticut, not reported. 



South to Pennsylvania ; west through Michigan and Wisconsin to 

 Minnesota. 



Habit. The most beautiful of the New England pines, 

 50-75 feet high, with a diameter of 2-3 feet at the ground ; 

 reaching in Maine a height of 100 feet and upwards ; trunk 

 straight, scarcely tapering ; branches low, stout, horizontal or 

 scarcely declined, forming a broad-based, rounded or conical 

 head of great beauty when young, becoming more or less 

 irregular with age ; foliage of a rich dark green, in long dense 

 tufts at the ends of the branches. 



Bark. Bark of trunk reddish-brown, in old trees marked 

 by flat ridges which separate on, the surface into thin, flat, 

 loose scales ; branchlets rough with persistent bases of leaf 

 buds ; season's shoots stout, orange-brown, smooth. 



Winter Buds and Leaves. Leading branch-buds conical, 



