TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. 
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Doctor Engelmann of St. Louis, informs me, that this 
Pine accompanied by P. strobus, P. variabilis and Abies 
canadensis grows on the islands of Lake Michigan. 
In the famous Pinetum at Dropmore, in 1837, according 
to Loudon, there was a pine of this species 27 feet high, 
with the diameter of the trunk 18 inches. It forms an 
elegant tree as described by Richardson, with long spread- 
ing flexible branches. Another tree at White Knights, 
has attained the height of 30 feet. 
Dr. Richardson remarks, that the Canadian porcupine 
feeds on its bark ; and the wood, from its lightness, and 
the straightness and tenacity of its fibres, is much prized 
for canoe timber. Titus Smith adds, that on the shallow 
soils in the vicinity of Halifax, (Nova Scotia,) when not 
reduced by fires, it produces timber of an useful size. As 
an ornamental tree it is prized in Great Britain ; but with 
us, as yet, the appearance of pines is too plebeian, from their 
abundance and predominance throughout the barrens and 
uncleared lands by which we are still surrounded. 
TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. 
PINUS pungens, foliis geminis brevibus acutis , strobilis ovato-conicis , 
aculeis squamarum ebngatis subulatis incurvis , inferioribus reflexis . 
Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. 2, p. 643. Michaux, tab. 140. Lamb. 
Pin. (ed. 2,) 1, tab. 17. Loudon, Arboretum, 4, p. 2197, fig. 2079, 
and figs. 2077 and 2078, (excellent figures of the cone, &c.) 
A tree 40 to 50 feet high, with the habit of the Scotch 
Fir, (P. sylvestris,) but with a rounder and more branching 
summit, by which appearance in its native sites it is readily 
distinguished. The quantity of this species on the Table 
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