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CONIFERAE 

 Pinus Strobus L. 



White pine. Weymouth pine 



The largest, most noble and most valuable of the forest trees of the 

 Adirondacks. Of it not many full grown representatives remain. A 

 few trees of the old stock or virgin forest are still standing on the land of 

 the Placid club and a few at the south end of Lake Placid. The largest 

 tree seen by me in the town is on Wood farm, on the east bank of the 

 Ausable. It has a basal circumference of 15 feet. These old pine trees 

 lift their heads above the other trees of the forest and spread their 

 branches and foliage in the unobstructed sunlight. But on account of 

 their commercial value, they are generally the first to be taken by the 

 lumbermen if they are in the vicinity of a stream down which the logs 

 can be floated to mill or to market. The species is easily recognized by 

 its long cylindric cones with their unarmed scales and by its slender 

 leaves which grow in fascicles or clusters of fives. 



Pinus resinosa Ait. 



Red pine. Canadian pine. Norway pine 



This tree occurs in the western part of the town, but is absent from 

 the eastern part. Young trees are common about Raybrook and an 

 occasional tree is seen in the vicinity of Lake Placid, but none east of 

 the Ausable. Its cones are ovate and have thick but unarmed scales and 

 its leaves are long, coarse and two in a cluster. The pitch pine, Pinus 

 rigida Mill., is absent. 



Picea Canadensis (Mill.) B. S. P. 

 P. alba Lk. 

 White spruce 



Young trees of this spruce are not rare in and near the valley of the 

 Ausable. They are in and about Newman, near the cemetery, south of 

 Brewster's mill and east and southeast of Mountain View house. In the 

 last locality are a few trees of large size. In the low woods between 

 Wood farm and Freemans Home an occasional tree occurs with naked 

 trunk of suitable size for lumber. This spruce is readily distinguished 

 from our other species by its longer slender leaves which are generally of 

 a silvery or glaucous green hue, and by its pale glabrous twigs. Its 



