. Elementary woodworking . ght to be long remembered. The wood of the evergreens is usually classed amongthe soft timbers, although the yellow pine is far from soft. 59. White Pine. The king among evergreens is usu-ally admitted to be the white pine. Its soft, bluish-greenfoliage, the widespreading branches, andthe value of its fine, even-grained woodgive it the first rank. Pines have needle-shaped leaveswhich grow in groups of two,three, or five. White pine nee-dles grow in groups of five andare from three to four incheslong. The cones which containthe seeds are about five incheslong. The tre
. Elementary woodworking . ght to be long remembered. The wood of the evergreens is usually classed amongthe soft timbers, although the yellow pine is far from soft. 59. White Pine. The king among evergreens is usu-ally admitted to be the white pine. Its soft, bluish-greenfoliage, the widespreading branches, andthe value of its fine, even-grained woodgive it the first rank. Pines have needle-shaped leaveswhich grow in groups of two,three, or five. White pine nee-dles grow in groups of five andare from three to four incheslong. The cones which containthe seeds are about five incheslong. The tree grows tall andstraight, and formerly grew ingreat forests covering thousandsof square miles; the wood is sofree from pitch and is so easily worked with tools thatthese great forests have been almost annihilated by thelumbermans ax, and white-pine timber has become quiteexpensive. It takes many years for a tree to grow largeenough for timber, and unless we are more economical inthe future white pine will be only a Fig. 123. Needles and Coneof White Pine 114 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 60. Georgia Pine. The southern yellow pine, or Georgiapine, is a very different tree from its northern cousin, thewhite pine, furnishing us with a resinous yellow wood,much harder than white pine^ and a beautiful and valu-able material for the interiors of buildings. It is alsovery durable and is frequently used for exposed places,such as the decks of ships. The needles are very long, measuring a foot and some-times fifteen inches in length. The seed cones are from six toten inches long, and the scales havelittle prickles on their ends. Thetree grows throughout the south-ern states from Virginia to Texas,and the cutting of its timber is avaluable industry of the Yellow Pine. The commoniG. em oc yellow piuc must not be confoundedwith the long-leaved Georgia pine. The former hasneedles growing three in a bunch, and the latter shortneedles three or four inches long, growing two and som
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