FOREST TREES. 211 
This species is found from the northern parts of 
the United States, nearly to the Arctic Sea; and 
from Labrador to the valleys of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, and the head waters of the Oregon River. It 
is sometimes met with in Northern Illinois. In 
Lower Canada and Labrador it is said to be a strag- 
gling shrub from three to ten feet high. Dr. Rich- 
ardson found it in the interior of the continent, 
twenty to forty feet high, and even more in favorable 
situations. In Wisconsin, on light sandy soils, it 
becomes a middle-sized tree. Lapham, Knapp and 
Crocker, in their report on the Forests of Wisconsin, 
speak of it as reaching the height of sixty or éighty 
feet, and furnishing hewed timber thirty or forty feet 
long and eight inches square. The leaves on vigor- 
ous trees are two inches long, and sometimes more. 
The cones are commonly in pairs, but often single, 
frequently curved, but as often quite straight. The 
branches are irregular, long, slender and flexible. 
The wood is light, the fibre straight and very 
tough; but logsare seldom found suitable for sawing 
into lumber. As fuel, it is equal to any other species 
of pine, it burns freely and produces great heat. It 
presents no inducements to propagation as a timber 
tree. 
Notwithstanding the eulogies of Loudon and others, 
the Grey Pine does not appear to have found much 
favor for ornamental purposes. It is a handsome 
tree while young, but when older is disfigured by the 
persistent cones, which open, become black, and 
remain on the branches for years. These, and the 
