The Pines. 



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has furnished by far the greatest amount of lumber and timber for 

 domestic use and the foreign trade. It is sometimes known in Eng- 

 land as the " Weymouth Pine," and by the French as "Pin du 

 Lord," from Lord Weymouth, an English nobleman, ■whose name 

 is associated with the early settlement of New England. 



154. Pimis strobus. The White Pine : Cone and Leaves. 



1303. The great bodies of this timber, when lumbering began, 

 were found around the upper waters of the rivers in Maine, in 

 Northern New Hampshire, in Northern and Southwestern New 

 York, in Central and Northwestern Pennsylvania, in Central Michi- 

 gan, and along both sides, but not the northern part of the lower 

 peninsula, in the upper peninsula of that State, in Northern Wis- 



