. Familiar trees and their leaves . Trees. THE PINE. 2G3. B Northern Pitch Pine. Needles at A, cone and priclcled scale at B, mag' nilied needle at C. scragged branches and coarse-scaled, dark, brown- gray bark. Its wood is hard, pitchy, and of no value except for fuel. My drawing of the magnified needle will show some- thing of the rough char- acter which marks every detail of the tree. The edge of the needle is toothed hke a saw, but the surface is daintily marked -by rows of fine white dots. Sometimes Nature's roughness under the microscope resolves itself into extreme dehcacy. The ISTorthe
. Familiar trees and their leaves . Trees. THE PINE. 2G3. B Northern Pitch Pine. Needles at A, cone and priclcled scale at B, mag' nilied needle at C. scragged branches and coarse-scaled, dark, brown- gray bark. Its wood is hard, pitchy, and of no value except for fuel. My drawing of the magnified needle will show some- thing of the rough char- acter which marks every detail of the tree. The edge of the needle is toothed hke a saw, but the surface is daintily marked -by rows of fine white dots. Sometimes Nature's roughness under the microscope resolves itself into extreme dehcacy. The ISTorthern pitch pine grows from Maine to northern Georgia, western New York, and eastern Kentucky. It is common in sandy barrens, and is sometimes found in swamps. Scotch Pine. The Scotch pine, also called (but Pin-US sylvestriB. wrongly) Scotch fir, is the common pine of northern Europe. It has been introduced into this country so extensively that few parks or private grounds are without at least one specimen. The color of this pine is a study for an artist. In, many specimens it is a most beautiful light sage- green, and in others it is bluish sage-green. Consid- ei'ing the interest attached to tree colors, and the con-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York : D. Appleton
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