The White Pine 



M. Florence Lumsden 



Ithaca, N. Y. 

 "There is but one tree — the White Pine." — P. Parkhurst. 



The White Pine is the tallest, the most stately and the most 

 beautiful of all our eastern cone-bearing trees. It is this tree 

 which distinguishes our scenery from that of other lands. The 

 great whorled branches which regularly stand out against the sky 

 cause them to be admired by all. The White Pine attains a height 

 of eight to one hundred seventy-five feet. It is found growing 

 from Newfoundland to Manitoba, south along the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia and southward to the valley of the Iowa river. In the 

 Adirondacks it is found growing at an altitude of twenty-three 

 hundred feet while in North Carolina we find it as high as forty- 

 three hundred feet. 



We find the White Pine mentioned in American History. Dur- 

 ing the seventeenth century all silver shillings and smaller coins 

 that were struck in the colony of Massachusetts bore the device 

 of a White Pine. Also in 1772 a clause in extenuation to one in 



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