104 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
In Wisconsin it is a middle-sized tree. Messrs. Lapham, 
Knapp, and Crocker, in their report on the forests of 
Wisconsin, speak of it as reaching the height of sixty 
or seventy feet, and furnishing hewn lumber thirty or 
forty feet long and eight inches square. 
The logs are seldom sawn into lumber, as they are 
light and hardly ever found suitable. The fibre is 
straight and the wood tough. I would only recommend 
this tree for cultivation as a tree fit for fuel, as it burns 
readily and gives great heat. Loudon speaks very high- 
ly of the gray pine as an ornamental tree, but I have 
never admired it, as the old cones cling to the branches 
and turn black, and remain so for years; this, with the 
number of dead twigs scattered promiscuously over the 
branches, give the trees while yet comparatively young 
the appearance of age and decrepitude. It is easily 
transplanted and needs no especial care. 
YELLOW PINE, 
This tree is found from the New England States to 
Florida. In the West it is found in Kentucky, Tennes- 
see, and Missouri; and Bryant claims to have found 
small trees among the sand-hills at the south end of 
Lake Michigan. In St. Louis considerable quantities 
of this lumber were brought from the Gasconade River 
and sold under the name of Gasconade pine. Michaux 
claims for this tree, which grows to the height of fifty 
or sixty feet, that “the concentrical circles of the wood 
are six times as numerous in a given space as those of 
the loblolly or pitch pines.” It grows most abundantly 
in the poorest soils. Its heart is fine grained and moder- 
ately resinous, which renders it compact without great 
weight. Its chief uses are in flooring, and for the masts, 
yards, and decks of vessels. The tree is of moderately 
slow growth. I would recommend the yellow pine not 
only on account of its qualities as a timber tree, but also 
on account of its beauty, its limbs forming from the top 
a regular cone. 
