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capacity of this pine to produce stool shoots, 

 which has been so much exaggerated (especially 

 in magazine articles), would seem to have but 

 slight forestal importance for Germany, and then 

 only under the warmest climatic conditions. 



^;^. Pinus strobus, L., Weymouth Pine, White 



Pine. 



This pine is the only conifer which one hundred 

 years ago became naturalised in the forests of 

 Germany and the surrounding states. Its rapidity 

 of growth, immunity from frost, and other sylvi- 

 cultural qualities which distinguish it from the 

 common pine have assured it a place in the 

 forest, especially as the extraordinarily favour- 

 able opinions from America as to its wood had 

 directed the attention of foresters previously to 

 this tree. This very Weymouth pine shows 

 what a mistake it is to apply the opinion of a 

 foreign country respecting its forest products 

 straight away to the valuation of the same 

 timber in one's own land in competition with 

 other kinds of timber. In the United States of 

 East America this pine was practically the one 

 and only conifer existing amidst an ocean of 

 broad-leaved trees which was capable of pro- 

 viding a strong, soft wood suitable for building 

 purposes, and hence the opinion of the Americans 

 as to its being an excellent first-class wood for 



