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various shapes of tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, balsam, etc., 
a considerable article of trade and export. 
As ornamental trees, the Pines are peculiarly valuable 
for the deep verdure of their foliage, which, unchanged by 
the severity of the seasons, is beautiful at all periods, and 
especially so in winter ; for the picturesque forms which 
many of them assume when fully grown ; and for the 
effectual shelter and protection which they afford in cold, 
bleak, and exposed situations. We shall here particular- 
ize those species, natives of either hemisphere, that are 
most valuable to the planter, and are also capable of 
enduring the open air of the middle states. 
The White Pine ( P . strobus), called also Sapling Pine, 
and Apple Pine, in various parts of this country, and 
Weymouth Pine abroad, is undoubtedly the most beautiful 
North American tree of the genus. The foliage is much 
lighter in color, more delicate in texture, and the whole 
tufting of the leaves more airy and pleasing than that of 
the other species. It is also beautiful in every stage of its 
growth, from a plant to a stately tree of 150 feet. When 
it grows in strong soil, it becomes thick and compact in its 
head ; but its most beautiful form is displayed when it 
stands in a dry and gravelly site ; there it shoots up with a 
majestic and stately shaft, studded every six or eight feet 
with horizontal tiers of branches and foliage. The hue of 
the leaves is much paler and less sombre than that of the 
other native sorts ; and being less stiffly set upon the 
branches, is more easily put in motion by the wind ; the 
murmuring of the wind among the Pine tops is, poetically 
thought to give out rather a melancholy sound 
“ The pines of Mcenalus were heard to mourn, 
And sounds of woe along the grove were borne,” 
