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and the intervening spaces be filled with trees of easier 
propagation, which may be cut out and used before the 
pines become crowded. Great care should be taken to 
preserve the leading shoots of the young pines, as they 
are very tender, and apt to be broken by the intervening 
branches. 
THE RED PINE. 
This tree is common in the northern part of the 
United States, a portion of the British provinces, and 
also in some parts of Michigan and Wisconsin. 
It frequently reaches the height of from eighty to 
ninety feet, with a diameter of two feet. It grows in 
dry, sandy soils, and has a beautiful straight trunk, and 
furnishes planks forty feet long without a blemish. The 
wood, for some uses, is preferable to the white pine, as 
it is heavy, strong, and very durable; it also is a very 
beautiful tree, and is sometimes planted around private 
residences in the rural districts on account of the beauty 
of its trunk and branches. 
The only trouble one experiences in the cultivation of 
this tree is the difficulty in procuring the young trees 
for planting, as seven eights of the trees bought for cul- 
tivation usually perish during removal, no matter how 
carefully handled; it is very difficult, nay, in fact, im- 
possible, to give a succinct reason for this, as the young 
trees of the red pine that are raised in nurseries are usu- 
ally hardy and strong plants that transplanting would 
not seem to affect. The seed of this tree is also very 
difficult to obtain, and “some rogues have been known 
to sell the seed-cones of the gray pine to unsophisticated 
people for those of the red pine, which they much re- 
semble.” 
GRAY OR SCRUB PINE. 
This tree is found very widely diffused all along the 
northern portion of the United States, and thence to 
the Arctic Ocean ; in lower Canada and Labrador it is 
only a straggling shrub from three to ten feet in height. 
