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Pinus koraiensis, the Korean Pine 



Let us descend the slope to it. 



The other five similar-looking trees in the corner of this Section, 

 together with a sixth and smaller one along that next path running 

 toward the Museum, are the same. The Korean Pine is an eastern 

 Asiatic species occurring in Amurland, Manchuria, Korea, and 

 Japan. It is a five-needle species and very much resembles the 

 Swiss Stone-Pine (p. 13), sharing with that tree the three char- 

 acteristics of dense brownish pubescence on young shoots, of 

 wingless seeds and of indehiscent cones, that is, cones which do 

 not open upon maturity but must decay or be forced open by man 

 or beast to liberate the seeds. However, the leaves on the Korean 

 Pine are stouter and the teeth on the margins more numerous and 

 carried to the tips. Their cones, moreover, are larger. 



The Korean Pine attains a height of 100 feet in its native home ; 

 the wood occurs in the trade. In pre-war days it was becom- 

 ing a very valuable article of export to Chinese and other Asiatic 

 and Australasian ports. The seeds are sometimes used as food. 



We shall meet several more specimens, some larger, in this and 

 the next Section. 



The flat-topped, spreading, and peculiarly shaped pine of very 

 open habit, west of the last Scotch Pine that we noted and behind 

 the first two Korean Pines that we met, is 



Pinus pungens, the Table-Mountain Pine 



Another tree of this kind stands directly to the west with one 

 other tree intervening. This tree is of comparatively little orna- 

 mental importance. It lives under a variety of names, including 

 Southern Mountain, Poverty, Prickly, and Hickory Pine. It is 

 native to the eastern United States in the Appalachian Mountains, 

 from North Carolina to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Its height 

 varies usually from 20 to 40 feet and the flat nature as seen here 

 is quite typical. It is of little economic value and consequently 

 not very well known though the wood appears on the market, but is 

 not distinguished from the yellow pine with which it is cut. 



