. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Table Mountain Pine 47 many wide resinous bands; its specific gravity is about It is quite durable and is used to some extent as lumber, and for pumps and water tubes. It is extensively used for fuel. It is hardy to a considerable distance northward of its range, and although a rapid grower is not admired as an ornamental, other species being prefered. It is, however, very valuable as a reforester, soon forming a ra
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Table Mountain Pine 47 many wide resinous bands; its specific gravity is about It is quite durable and is used to some extent as lumber, and for pumps and water tubes. It is extensively used for fuel. It is hardy to a considerable distance northward of its range, and although a rapid grower is not admired as an ornamental, other species being prefered. It is, however, very valuable as a reforester, soon forming a rapid-growing covering for worn-out and neglected lands. It is also called by many other names, as Scrub pine. Short pine. Short-leaved pine. Cedar pine, River pine, Nigger pine. New Jersey pine, Shortschat pine, and Shortshucks. 35. TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE — Pinus pungens Michaux A tree of the mountains, on dry, gravelly, or rocky slopes from New Jersey and Pennsylvania to North Carolina and northern Georgia; its maximum height is 18 meters with a trunk diameter of i m., often much smaller and frequently fruiting when only several meters high. It is also called Southern moimtain pine and Prickly pine. The trunk is short and stout, the horizontal branches short, the lowest pendu- lous at the tips, the upper ascending, usually forming a broad open tree, often irregular; when crowded the branches are few near the top, and form an irregular narrow round head. •The bark is about 2 cm. thick, fissured into irregular plates with a loose, dark reddish brown scaly surface. The twigs are stout, smooth, and light orange at first, becoming darker, somewhat purpUsh and finally dark brown, and roughened by the dark, persistent bases of the bud-scales. The branch-buds are narrowly eUiptic, about 12 mm. long, taper- ing to a blunt point, the lateral ones much smaller. The leaves are in sheathed fascicles of 2, hght bluish green, 4 to 10 cm. long, mm. thick, stiff and somewhat twisted, finel
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