WHITE PINE. 
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PLATE CXLV. 
A branch with a cone of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A leaf. Fig. 2, A seed. 
[In England this tree is called the Weymouth Pine, a name which is 
gradually becoming .common in America. Dr. Dwight says that formerly 
they were seen in the forest 250 feet in height ; and fifty or sixty years 
since, one was cut down in Lancaster, New Hampshire, which measured 
223 feet. Where it has been cultivated in England and France, it has 
been found to increase in height at the rate of from 15 inches to 3 feet 
each .year, for fifty or sixty years. Emerson says, that in 1846, the 
exportation, from the growth of Massachusetts had almost ceased, and from 
New Hampshire and the southern parts of Maine it had much diminished, 
and the lumber had become of an inferior quality. From the Penobscot 
and other great rivers of the northern parts of the latter state, the expor- 
tation is still large ; but the lumberers have to go every year to a greater 
distance from the great water courses, and to ascend smaller streams and 
more remote lakes. The same, is occurring in New York, and the day is 
evidently not far distant when New England even, will have to depend on 
Canada for this wood, unless measures are taken to restore the pine forests 
on the great tracts fitted for no other use. 
It is not uncommon to see old Pines standing, deformed by the loss of 
the leading shoot, a loss which old trees never recover, though nature 
makes an effort to throw up an erect stem from one of the horizontal limbs, 
distant from the centre. It is. liable to lose its limbs and be injured in 
appearance by the weight of snow lodged on its branches. 
[See Nuttall’s Supplement, Vol. III., p. 118.] 
