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This is a goal most worthy of the government's attention. It's hard to come by wood for 

 masts during wartime. It's extremely costly even in peacetime, and the Lithuanian pine is 

 becoming scarcer by the day. In France there are immense tracts of abandoned terrain 

 where this tree could thrive. Even if it were unsuitable for masts on ships, it always 

 would provide very worthwhile wood. 



The maritime pine, Pinus maritima, LAM. is quite a large tree that's very common 

 in the sandy soil of our southern provinces. Its trunk is straight, and its branches spread 

 out. The leaves are four or five inches long; they emerge in pairs from the same sheath 

 and have a reflexed scale at their base. The fruits form cones four to six inches long, 

 glossy yellow, widened at the base and terminate in a pyramidal shape. They're borne on 

 short peduncles strongly adherent to the tree and frequently opposite in pairs. 



FLOWERS: in March and April. 



RANGE: the vicinity of Bordeaux and the shores of the Mediterranean. The cone 

 in the illustration came from the forest of Esterel where I picked it in May of 1821. 



USES. It's a very useful tree along the seashore because it resists onshore winds 

 and protects the other trees. It also has been cultivated very enthusiastically in Guiana, 

 Brittany, etc. In the Paris climate it suffers during harsh winters, whereas the Scotch pine 

 is never harmed by the cold. The wood of the maritime pine has very many uses. It 

 provides resin, pitch, tar, turpentine, lampblack, etc. 



The stone pine, Pinus pinea, LINN., is a tall tree with a straight trunk dividing at 

 its summit into several branches 



