520 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
The Red Pine. P. rubra (P. resinosa). Leaves in two’s, four 
to five inches long, straight, stiff, yellowish-green, thickly set on the 
shoots, compressed and collected in bunches at the extremities of 
the branches. Branches rather naked, straight, open, and reddish 
brown. Very similar to the above in most respects. 
The Table Mountain Pine. P. pungens .—This species was 
described by Michaux more than forty years ago as one of the 
rarest and most peculiar of American pines; yet it is little known 
away from the high mountains of the Carolinas and East Tennessee, 
in which region alone it is found. There can be little doubt of its 
hardiness in most parts of our country. A tree of more irregular 
and spreading growth than is common to American pines; color of 
foliage a light yellowish-green; leaves in two’s, resembling those 
of the Scotch fir; “ cones top-shaped, rather large, light yellowish- 
brown, three and a half inches long, generally in whorls around the 
stem and top branches, pointing horizontally, and remaining on the 
tree for years ” (Gordon). Old trees are said to exhibit a tabular 
form of top. It is strange that this tree is still almost unknown in 
nurseries and home-grounds. It seems to have peculiarities of 
form and color to make it valuable. Height forty to fifty feet. 
Short-leaved Yellow or Spruce Pine. P mitis. _This 
variety is found all along the coast from Connecticut to the Gulf of 
Mexico, generally associated with the Jersey scrub pine on light 
poor soils. Height fifty to ninety feet. “ The branches are spread¬ 
ing on the lower part of the trunk, but become less divergent as 
they approach the top of the tree, where they are bent towards the 
body so as to form a summit regularly pyramidal, but not spacious 
in proportion to the dimension of the trunk.” This narrow conical 
form of head has given rise to the name of spruce pine. Josiah 
Hoopes, in his Book of Evergreens, mentions the changeable color 
of its leaves, “softly merging from a bright bluish-green to the 
darkest hue in alternate changes of light and shade,” as a pleasing 
feature. 
The Long-leaved Yellow, or Georgia Pitch Pine. P. 
