be obtained on application to the Forest Commissioner by whom 

 the awards are made. 



For the individual owner of woodland in Maine, there is no 

 tree better suited either for regeneration by methods of natural 

 reproduction or for planting, than the white pine; and, there- 

 fore, its chief characteristics will be described in detail and direc- 

 tions will be given for the best methods of treatment for this 

 species in particular. 



Specific Characteristics oe White Pine. 

 (Pinus strobus, L.) 



Form and Si::;c: On suitable sites, white pine grows to be 

 one of the largest of the Eastern conifers, often attaining a 

 height of from ico to 150 feet and a diameter of from 3 to 5 

 feet, and often reaches an age of 250 or more years. 



Very little virgin timber is now left in the State, however, and 

 present stands do not as a rule average over 12 or 18 inches in 

 diameter. Trees grown in forest form, that is close together, 

 have straight, column like trunks clear of branches for 50 or 100 

 feet from the ground and open, irregular crowns while trees 

 grown in the open have a more branchy and irregular form. 

 The bark near the base of old trees is dark-brown and deeply 

 furrowed, but it becomes thinner, smoother and of a lighter 

 color further up on the trunk and also on young trees. 



Local Range: White pine will grow throughout the whole 

 of Maine, and its chief advantage for cultivation as a timber 

 tree lies in the fact that though it makes its best development 

 and most rapid growth on fresh, deep, sandy, well drained soils 

 with a porous subsoil, yet it readily adapts itself to either dryer 

 or more moist situations. It will grow on the dryest sands and 

 on steep, rocky slopes, and also on moist clay flats ; but it will 

 not grow in low swampy places that are subject to periodic flood- 

 ing. It will make excellent growth on non-agricultural lands, 

 and is the best tree for reforesting burned or cut-over areas in 

 this region. It will also make a very satisfactory wind-break 

 or shelter-belt in exposed situations. It is wind firm and frost- 

 resistant to a remarkable 'degree, but it should not be planted too 

 near the sea coast since it can not well withstand the strong, 

 salt-ladened sea breezes. 



