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If;.as Michaux asserts, the Yellow Pine is inferior 
to the Scotch Pine in the quality of wood, the latter is 
the more eligible tree for forest culture, as it is of 
more rapid growth. Still the Yellow Pine merits the 
attention of tree planters, and preservation where it 
already exists. 
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14. Pinus Laricio—Corsican Pine. 
Leaves, four to six inches long, slender, flexible, very 
wavy; cones, two to three inches or more in length, 
oblong-conical; scales, tipped with a very small 
prickle, often scarcely perceptible; seeds, twice as 
large as those of the Scotch Pine; cotyledons, six to 
eight. 
This species is a native of the island of Corsica, and 
other countries in the south of Europe. Its ordinary 
height is from eighty to one hundred feet. Loudon 
says: “In the island of Corsica it is said that there. 
are trees of this species from one hundred and forty to 
one hundred and fifty feet in height.” According to 
the same authority itis a much more rapid grower 
than the Scotch Pine, but not a long-lived tree; its 
duration in Corsica being only from seventy to eighty 
years. The wood is manufactured into valuable lum- 
ber, which is easily worked and said to be quite dura- 
ble. ‘The following instances of its rapid growth are 
taken from Loudon’s Arboretum: “The rate of 
growth in young trees, in the climate of London, is 
from two feet to three feet a year. A tree in the 
Horticultural Society’s garden, having been twelve 
years planted, was, in 1834, twenty feet high, and is 
