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quantities still uncut in Ontario and Quebec and in the 
northern United States, but no appreciable amount grows 
south of a line between Chicago and New York, about 42° 
north latitude ; 77 per cent, of the United States white 
pine comes from the Lake States, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
and Michigan, of which the first two supply 68 per cent. 
White pine and red or Norway pine are, in the States and 
Canada, sold together under the name of " Northern pine." 
White pine stands second in the United States cut of 
timber, and in 1905 amounted to 405,000,000 cubic feet, of 
which nearly one-fourth may have been red pine. It is 
the most valuable of Canadian trees. The timber is 
becoming scarce and high-priced in Britain, as there is, 
compared with former days, a comparatively small amount 
now sent over. 
This is one of the many cases of the confusion caused by 
timber going under different names in different places ; the 
American or rather United States term "yellow pine" 
applies to all the pine in the eastern States, except white 
pine and red or Norway pine, and these include longleaf, 
shortleaf, and other southern pines ; thus it will be seen 
that the timber which in the EngHsh market is called 
yellow pine is the very timber which the Americans 
exempt from that title. 
The wood is of white or pale straw colour, recognised by 
dark hair lines running in the direction of the grain ; it 
turns a darker colour with age, is generally free from 
knots, is of uniform colour, clean, straight in grain and 
easily worked, is fairly strong but inferior in that respect 
to Baltic redwood, and, even when it was plentiful and 
cheap, not used for outdoor or substantial work in Great 
Britain, although it is much used for these purposes in the 
drier climate of the States and Canada, where, until of late 
years, it was the chief building timber. It is excellent for 
