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The tree is from 100 to 150 feet high, with a stem of four to 

 six feet in diameter. 



Pinus mitiSj Michaux. 



Yellow Pine of North America. In dry sandy soil, attaining 

 a height of sixty feet. Wood durable, fine-grained, mode- 

 rately resinous, valuable for flooring. 



Pinus monophylla, Torrey. {P. edulis, Engelmann.) 



Stone or Nut Pine of California, on the Sierra Nevada and 

 Cascade Mountains, 6500 feet. It thrives best in dry lime- 

 stone soil. The seeds are edible, of an almond -like taste, and 

 consumed in quantity by the natives. Height of tree gene- 

 rally about thirty-five feet, but occasionally as much as eighty 

 feet ; stem not of great thickness. 



Pinus montana, Du Poi. (P. Pumilio, Hsenke.) 



On the Alps and Carpathians up to the highest points, cover- 

 ing large tracts, and thriving on the poorest soil. The tree, 

 which grows about twenty-five feet high, in favourable locali- 

 ties fifty, yields much oil of turpentine. The wood is used 

 for carving and for firewood. Only available to advantage for 

 our highlands. 



Pinus Montezumae, Lambert. [P. Devoniana, Lindley.) 

 {P. Grenvillece, Gordon.) 

 Mexico. A handsome Pine, eighty feet high; wood white, 

 soft and resinous. 



Pinus monticola, Douglas. 



California, at an elevation of 7000 feet. It thrives best in 

 poor soil of granite formation, and attains the height of 200 

 feet, with a stem of one and a-half to four feet thick. The 

 wood is white, close-grained. 



Pinus muricataj D. Don. 



Bishop's-Pine. California. Found up to 7500 feet. This Pine 

 grows to about forty feet. 



Pinus nigra, Aiton. 



Black Spruce. North-East America. Occurring extensively 

 between 44° and 53° N. latitude. This tree, which is termed 

 Double Spruce by the Canadians, attains a height of seventy 

 feet, and furnishes a light elastic timber of pale colour, ex- 

 cellent for yards of ships. The young shoots are used for 

 making spruce-beer, and the small roots serve as cords. It 

 likes swampy forest-land. 



Pinus nobilis, Douglas. 



Noble White Pir. North- West Coast of America, on the 

 Columbia-River and the mountains of North California, 



