THE WHITE PINE {Pinus Sirohus) 

 This tree has plume-hke tufts of blue-green leaves in bundles of fives. The twigs have five buds around the central one, 

 so the trunk and limbs send out whorls of five branches each spring. The pistillate flowers are near the top of the twig and 

 hidden among the leaves. The staminate cones cluster behind the new shoot and are vellow when ripe. The cones are slender^ 

 curved, pendant, with thin, unarmed scales. The tree is chief among the soft pines in the lumber trade 



