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Loblolly Pine. Pmus tada Linn. 



Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) 



Old Field Pine. Sap Pine. 



Torch Pine. Meadow Pine. 



Rosemary Pine. Cornstalk Pine (Va.). 



Slash Pine. Black Pine. 



Longshat Pine. Foxtail Pine. 



Longshucks. Indian Pine. 



Black Slash Pine. Spruce Pine. 



Frankincense Pine. Bastard Pine. 



Shortleaf Pine. Yellow Pine. 



Bull Pine. Swamp Pine. 



Virginia Pine. Longstraw Pine. 



Locality. 



Delaware to Florida and westward intermittently to Texas. 

 Features of Tree. 



Fifty to one hundred feet or more in height, two to sometimes 

 four feet in thickness. Leaves in twos and threes. Scales or 

 cones have short straight spines. A large tree. 



Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood. 

 Resembles longleaf pine. 



Structural Qualities of Wood. 

 Resembles longleaf pine. 



Representative Uses of Wood. 

 Resembles longleaf pine. 



Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot. 

 33 (U. S. Forestry Div.).* 



Modulus of Elasticity. 



2,050,000 (average of 660 tests by U. S. Forestry Div.).* 



1,600,000. 



Modulus of Rupture. 



11,300 (average of 650 tests by U. S. Forestry Div.).* 

 12, 500. 



Remarks. 



Grows naturally on deforested land, whence the name of Old 

 Field Pine. 



* See page 6. . 



"Southern Pine." U. S. Forestry Circiilir No 12. (Dr. B. E. Fernow, Chief.) 

 "Timber Pines of Southern States." U. S. Forestry Bill. No. 13. (Dr. B. E. 

 Fernow, Chief.) 



