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Vitm. Sp. PL V. 345 ; Ait. Kew. iii. 369 ; Du Roi, Harbk. ed. Pott, 

 ii. 78 ; Marsh. Arb. Amer. 101 ; Poir. Diet. v. 341 ; Lamb. Pin. 

 ed. 2, i. t. 32 ; Nouv. Diiham. v. 249 ; Pursli, Fl. Amer. Sept. ii. 

 644 ; Hayne, Dend. 176 ; Laws. Manual, 360 ; Loud. Arb. Brit. iv. 

 2280, f. 2193-96 ; Pinet. Wob. 83 ; Gord. Pinet. i. 239, and ii. 295 ; 

 Carr. Tr. Gen. Conif. i. 302, and ii. 399 ; Henk. and Hoclist. Syn. 92 ; 

 Beissn. Nadelh. 288. P. foliis quinis, cortice glahro, Gron. Yirg. ii. 

 152. P. foliis longissimis ex una theca quinis, the White Pine, nos- 

 tratihus, Golden, Nov. Ebor. n. 229 in Act. Upsal. 1743. P. canadensis 

 quinquefolia, fiorihus alhis, &c., Duham. Arb. ii. 127. P. virginiana, 

 conis longis, non ut in vulgari echinatis, Pluk. Aim. 297. Larix 

 canadensis, &c., Tourn. Inst. 586. Strohus americana, A. S. Oersted, 

 Frilands-Trovoxten i Danmark, 1864, 80. 



Habitat. — Newfoundland, northern shores of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence to Lake Nipigon and the valley of the Winnipeg Piver ; south 

 through the Northern States to Pennsylvania, the shores of Lake 

 Michigan, " Starving Pock," near La Salle, Illinois, near Davenport, 

 Iowa (Parry), and along the Alleghany Mountains to Northern 

 Georgia. 



Introduced into England in 1705, and has there got its most 

 common name — after Lord Weymouth, who a short time after its 

 introduction planted a great number of trees on his property at Long- 

 leat, in Wiltshire (F. C. Schiibeler, " Viridarium Norvegicum," i. 392, 

 1886). P. Strobus received its name from Linna3us, and w^as, as 

 Loudon says, first cultivated in England by the Duchess of Beaufort 

 at Badminton, in 1705, and great quantities were soon afterwards 

 planted at Longleat. 



A large tree of the first economic value, 80-170 feet in height, 

 with a trunk 4-12 feet in diameter ; sandy loam upon drift formations, 

 forming extensive forests, or in the region of the great lakes often 

 in small bodies scattered through the hard-wood forests, here reaching 

 its greatest development ; north of latitude 47° N. and south of 

 Pennsylvania, Central Michigan, and Minnesota much smaller, less 

 common and valuable (C. S. Sargent). 



Finns Strobus is found in highest perfection in the extensive 

 territory comprehended between 42° and 45° north latitude. Within 

 this space lie large portions of the provinces of New York, New 

 England, Nova Scotia, and Canada. The principal woods are on the 

 shores of Fundy Bay and of Canso Bay (in Nova Scotia) ; on the eastern 

 side of Massachusetts Bay ; on the shores of the rivers Piscataqua and 

 Merrimac (in New Hampshire), and of the Connecticut and Mohawk ; 

 and from the extreme northern side of the river St. Lawrence towards 

 Montreal and the shores of Lake Champlain. In the more 

 southerly parts of North America this species appears but sparingly, 

 and never in continued forests — a proof that a cold, rough climate 

 suits it best. The soil in which this Pine is found is said to be of the 



