PINE FAMILY 



Leaves. — In clusters of two, three-fourths to two and one-half 

 inches long, stout, curved, divergent, dark grayish green, serrulate, 

 acute with short callous point, persistent until second or third year ; 

 fibro-vascular bundles two. Sheaths short, loose, pale brown and 

 silvery white. 



Flowers. — April, May. Staminate flowers in crowded clusters, 

 about an inch and a half in length ; oblong, one-half inch long ; an- 

 thers yellow ; crests orbicular, slightly denticulate ; involucral bracts 

 six to eight. Pistillate flowers borne in clusters of two to four on 

 the terminal shoot, subglobose ; scales dark purple, ovate with short 

 incurved tips. Peduncles stout, short, covered with large, brown, 

 ovate bracts. 



Cones. — Lateral, one and one-half to two inches long, oblong- 

 conical, oblique, incurved. Scales thin, stiff, thickened at apex and 

 armed with small incurved often deciduous prickles. Persist for 

 many years. Seeds nearly triangular, almost black ; wings pale, 

 shining, one-third of an inch long. Cotyledons four to five. 



The Gray Pine is the Scrub Pine of northern latitudes. In 

 good soil it makes a fair tree, but in barren soils one finds 

 miles and miles of scrub. The leaf is bluish green covered 

 with so marked a gray bloom that the foliage mass is posi- 

 tively gray. The leaves are in clusters of two, short, re- 

 curved, and divergent. The staminate flowers are greenish 

 yellow, more conspicuous than those of the White Pine, not 

 so large as those of the Red Pine, and for the few days they 

 are in bloom the tree is noticeable. Cones are small, twisted, 

 and look not fully developed for they do not open evenly. 

 They are light gray ; sometimes they shine almost silvery 

 out of the grayish mass of foliage. 



AUSTRIAN PINE 



Pimis laricio aiistnaca. 



The Austrian Pine is extensively planted throughout the 

 north in parks and lawns. The tree is native to the moun- 

 tains of eastern Europe, and there reaches the height of one 

 hundred and twenty feet. It bears our climate well, endures 

 extremes of both heat and cold, will flourish in any fair soil, 

 and always has a strong healthy look. Its leaves are not 



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