Winter buds (leaves cut away to show huds j 



THE TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE {Pinus pungens) 

 The leaves are in 2's, short, stout, tu'isted and blue green. The tree makes a scraggly growth on the barren slopes of the 



Appalachian mountains 



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Winter luids ■ leives cut away to show buds) 



THE PITCH PINE (Ptnus r.gida) 



This picturesque pine of the swamps and arid coast plains of the East has leaves in 3's in persistent black sheaths. The bark 



is in reddish-brown plates 



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