200 FOREST TREES. 
SECTION QUINES. 
FIVE LEAVES IN A SHEATH. 
1. Pinus Strobus— White Pine. 
Leaves, three to four inches long, slender, soft, more 
or less glaucous, the sheaths deciduous; cones, four 
to six inches long, cylindrical, drooping, somewhat 
curved; scales without prickles. 
The White Pine is a well known and most useful 
tree which, in primitive forests, reaches the height 
of from one hundred to one hundred and sixty feet. 
It is found throughout the northern parts of the 
United States, and was formerly very abundant in 
New England, Northern New York and Pennsylvania. 
Immense quantities of Pine lumber were, until 
recently, derived from those regions, and either con- 
sumed at home, or shipped to Europe and the West 
Indies. But now Pine trees of old growth are rare 
even in the woods of Maine. The scattered specimens 
which, in long settled parts of the country, were in 
my youth still to be seen towering far above the sur- 
rounding forests, are no longer to be met with. At 
‘present, the supply within the limits of the United 
States is drawn principally from the forests of the 
Northwestern States. 
The value of the wood of the White Pine, and the 
multiplied uses for which it is employed, are well 
known. No one of our native forest trees is more 
generally useful; and no one better merits careful 
preservation and extensive culture. It is idle to 
