The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . Winter buds (leaves cut away to show buds) THE TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE (Pinus pungens) The leaves are in 2s, short, stout, twisted and blue green. The tree makes a scraggly growth on the barren slopes of the Appalachian mountains. Winter buds (leaves cut away to show buds)THE PITCH PINE {Pinus rigida) This picturesque pine of the swamps and arid coast plains of the East has leaves in 3s in persistent black sheaths. The bark is in reddish-brown plates The Pines young leaves enclosed in t
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . Winter buds (leaves cut away to show buds) THE TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE (Pinus pungens) The leaves are in 2s, short, stout, twisted and blue green. The tree makes a scraggly growth on the barren slopes of the Appalachian mountains. Winter buds (leaves cut away to show buds)THE PITCH PINE {Pinus rigida) This picturesque pine of the swamps and arid coast plains of the East has leaves in 3s in persistent black sheaths. The bark is in reddish-brown plates The Pines young leaves enclosed in their subtending scales, before thesecrowded scales fall. Of late a new and profitable industry has sprung up in thewake of lumbering. Stumps are cut into small sticks for kindlingwood, and sold in small bundles. These sticks are rich in resin,and bring good prices. Roots, branches and other waste piecesare gathered and converted into tar or into charcoal. The profitsthat come from gathering up the fragments after the lumbermenand turpentine distillers give one an idea of what enormousvalues are being squandered by wantonness and ignorance. TheSouth is rich in natural resources, but its noblest patrimony, thepine forests, seems doomed soon to be spent. The Big-Cone Pine (P. Coulteri, D. Don.) is chiefly remark-able for the size an
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