( loi ) 



in length. The cones are long and large, opening 

 and dropping their feeds in the tall. It is accounted 

 equ^-l to any for yielding tar, &c. 



3. Pin us rigid a. Common three leaved Virgi-- 



nian Pine. 



This grows common in many places throughout 

 thefe dates, rifmg often to the height of fixty or 

 feventy feet, with a large ereft trunk, dividing into 

 branches towards the top, and furniftied with pretty 

 long leaves growing by threes in a fheath. The 

 cones are often produced in clufters round the 

 branches, they are about three inches long and have 

 rigid fcales. There are whole Forefls of many 

 hundred acres of thefe trees in fome back parts of 

 the country, of which great quantities of Boards 

 are fawed and floated down fome of our long rivers. 



4. Pin us Strobus, Neiv- England^ or White 



Pine. 



This is allowed to out top in growth mod of our 

 other trees, rifing with a large ereft trunk, to the 

 height of an hundred feet or more, covered with a 

 fmootli bark and fending off many long branches,. 

 The leaves are long and flender, growing by fives in 

 a flieath, and fet thick on the branches. The cones 

 are often fix or feven inches in length, and generally 

 befmeared with turpentine, with which thefe trees 

 much abound. The cones generally open about the 

 firft ef September, foon after which the feeds drop 

 out. This alfo grows in great plenty towards the 

 heads of fome of our rivers, from whence great 

 quantities arc rafted down, affording excellent mafts, 

 yards, fpars, &c. &c. for fhip building. 



5. PiNUS 



