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Pin us Strobus is a native of eastern North America, extending 

 from Newfoundland to Manitoba and throughout the United 

 States from Minnesota to the Atlantic and south along the Appa- 

 lachians to northern Georgia. It is the tallest conifer east of the 

 Rockies and records exist of trees up to 260 feet in height and 20 

 feet in girth. Today, however, trees 150 feet tall are uncommon. 

 The wood has always been regarded as one of the finest and most 

 valuable in this country. It is straight-grained, soft, easily worked 

 and finishes well, with a fine even surface. It takes paint and 

 polish well and when once it has been properly seasoned it rarely 

 checks. Its wide uses include almost every wood-utilizing industry 

 in the country, from indoor trim and cabinet work to aircraft and 

 shipbuilding. 



In addition to the intrinsic value of the wood, white pine is one 

 of the best species for reforestation purposes in the northeastern 

 United States. It is unquestionably the most important forest tree 

 in eastern North America and, as one authority states, probably in 

 the world. It is being much used for reclamation work and in 

 Pennsylvania, where much attention is given to forestry, twentv 

 million young white pines were planted during a recent period of 

 eighteen years on the state forests. An additional ten million 

 trees have probably been set out on private lands in that state. 

 New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut have done similar 

 work. Nursery stock is used for this purpose and it is interesting 

 to note here that the cones of white pine yield from 50 to 75 seeds 

 each, that from 25,000 to 35,000 of these seeds are required to 

 make a pound of clean seed sufficient to sow 100 square feet of 

 nursery bed and that each bed can produce from 10,000 to 15,000 

 two-year-old seedlings. 



The white pine has been extensively introduced into Europe 

 with marked success. In 1705 it was brought to England by Lord 

 Weymouth and in that country it is most commonly known as 

 Weymouth Pine. In 1794, a Hessian forester who was visiting 

 America returned to Germany with sufficient white pine seeds to 

 reforest 15 acres of woodland near Trippstadt in Bavaria. Years 

 after, when the forestry movement in the United States was in its 

 infancy and nurseries could not yet supply the needs, white pine 



