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yellow pine for floors that are frequently washed; as the resin with which it 

 is impregnated renders it finer and more durable. It is used for ship pumps, 

 and as fuel by the bakers and brick-makers of New York and Philadelphia ; 

 and from the roots is procured lampblack. The principal use of this tree is, 

 however, to furnish tar and turpentine. The essence of turpentine, used in 

 most parts of America for painting, is prepared from this tree. 



Commercial Statistics. Price oi^ cones, in London, 2s. per quart. Plants, at 

 Bollwyller, are 1 franc 50 cents each ; and at New York, 50 cents. 



i 18. P. (k.) seko'tina Michx. The late, or Pond, Pine. 



Identification. Michx. Fl Anier. Bor., 2. p. 205. ; Michx. Arb., 1. p. 86. ; N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 148. ; 



Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 6io. ; N. Du Ham., 5 p. 246. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 18. ; Lavvsoirs 



Manual, p. 35 '>. 

 SvntMffme. 1 P. Tarda, alopecuroidea Ait. Hort. Kelt)., ed. 2., 5. p. 317. 

 Engravings. Michx. Arb., 1. t. 7. ; N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 1+2. ; N. Du Ham., 5. t. 75. f. 1. ; Lamb. Pin., 



ed. 2.. 1. t. IS. ; our Jig. 2130., to our usual scale ; and Jigs. 2127. to 2129., of the natural size, from 



the Horticultural Society and Dropmore specimens, and from Michaux. 



Spec. Char., Spi 

 incumbent. 



Leaves in threes, very long. Male catkins erect, 

 Cones ovate; scales having very small mucros. 

 (Michx,) Buds, on young trees (see Jig. 2128.), 

 from f^in. to fV H1, m length, and from -^ in. to 

 } in. in breadth; conical, dark brown, and very re- 

 sinous: buds on old trees as in Jig. 2127. Leaves 

 (see^g.2129.), in the Dropmore specimens, from 4 in. 

 to Gin. long; in Michaux's figure, upwards of 8 in. 

 long. Cones 2iin. or 3 in. long, and H in. or 2 in. 

 broad ; egg-shaped ; scales | in. long, and f in. broad, 

 with the apex depressed, and terminating in a slender 

 prickle. Seed very small; with the wing, from f in. to 

 1 in. in length. Cotyledons, ? The cones and leaves of the 

 trees of this name at Dropmore, and the circumstance of there 

 being trees at 



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Pain's Hill with 

 cones of different 

 sizes and shapes, 

 but all on three- 

 leaved pines, and 

 all evidently of the 7Vda fa- 

 mily, induce us to believe that 

 P. rfgida and P. serotina are 

 only different forms of the same 

 species. 



Description, <!yc. The pond pine, 

 according to Michaux, rarely ex- ,., 

 ceeda 35 ft. or 40 ft. in height, with \jrl 

 a branchy trunk from 15 in. to 18 in. d 

 in diameter. The leaves arc ge- ^ 

 nerally 5 in. or G in. long, and 

 sometimes more. The male cat- 

 kin-, art; Straight, and about. Jin. 



long. 'Ill" (ones are commonly in 

 and opposite to each other ; 

 the) are about 2\ in- long, nearly 



i in. in diameter, 



and egg-snape< 



are rounded at th< ii i 



tremities, and armed with fine short 



prickles, which are easily broken 



no ves- 



ft of their e>. i 



; ai rive ;>i maturity tin. 



( ( ond •.' ai ; I'M' the) do not -In 'i 



til] the third or fourth 



