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cords of pulp wood to the acre, under average circumstances, might 

 be expected after fifteen or twenty-five years. The tree is frequently 

 found here as a shade tree. The seeds mature in July and should be 

 sown at once. The seed beds should be kept moist. By the next fall 

 seedlings could be set out in the plantation at four or five foot dis- 

 tances from each other. It will make a good nurse tree for white 

 pine, if mixed with it. The quickest and cheapest method of propa- 

 gation is from cuttings. 



WHITE PINE. 



Pinus Strobus, L. 



It is not necessary to state the uses of this tree nor should it be 

 necessary to state that it ought to be cultivated extensively. It is a 

 rapid grower and prefers poor soil, yields early returns and is very 

 valuable when mature — what more is wanted? The seeds mature 

 in fall of second year and as soon as the cones become pitchy (in 

 August or September) pick them and keep in ordinary living room 

 or some other dry place during winter in bags or on a slat frame, » 

 having something to catch the seeds as they fall from the cones. 

 Seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit is sufficient heat to open the cones 

 that the seeds may drop out. Sow broadcast early in spring. Cover 

 lightly and roll the beds. They must be protected from the sun in 

 summer. If the beds become very wet sprinkle dry sand over them 

 as soon as possible. ''Damping off" is said to be prevented in this 

 way. If one year old plants are not used in the plantation they had 

 better be transplanted to nursery rows, the rows six inches apart 

 and plants about two inches apart in the rows. During the winter 

 cover with leaves and transplant in spring. Two year old plants 

 may be used safely. If possible have some nurse tree two or three 

 years in advance of the pine, or a rapid grower, set in alternate rows, 

 or two rows of pine to one of the other. Three feet in the row is 

 sufiicient. It is worthy of a place as an ornamental tree. 



PITCH PINE, YELLOW PINE, JACK PINE. 



Pinus rigida, Miller. 



This pine has needles in threes. The cones take two or three 

 years to mature. They should be gathered and treated as white 



