. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tkejes of the Noetheen States and Canada. 15 Tliis valuable timber-tree occasionally at- tains the height of lOU ft., or somewliat more, with irregular wide pyramidal or rounded head and straight columnar trunk 3-4 ft. in thickness. Its bark is of a reddish brown color with wide irregular scaly plates and ridges. It is particularly abundant and well developed in the lower Mississippi basin and probably no other Pine produces as much lumber for use in the central-western
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tkejes of the Noetheen States and Canada. 15 Tliis valuable timber-tree occasionally at- tains the height of lOU ft., or somewliat more, with irregular wide pyramidal or rounded head and straight columnar trunk 3-4 ft. in thickness. Its bark is of a reddish brown color with wide irregular scaly plates and ridges. It is particularly abundant and well developed in the lower Mississippi basin and probably no other Pine produces as much lumber for use in the central-western states as this. The wood, as a hard Pine, is considered only second to that of the Long-leaf Pine in value, and in being somewhat softer and less resin- ous than that is preferred to it for many uses. It is rather heavy and hard, a cu. ft weighing lbs., and of a reddish yellow color with thick lighter sap-wood. It is largely manufactured into lumber for interior finishing and general construction Leaves 3--~» in. long in clusters of 2 (occasion- ally 3) with persistent sheaths, rather slender, flexible, dark green ; branchlets roii2;h. Flowers: staminate yellowish purple, about % in. long, in crowded clusters ; pistillate pale rose-color, single or in whorls of 2 or 3 with stout stems. Cones oblong-ovoid, 11/2-2 in. long, single or few to- gether, subsessile, lateral and with scales thickened at apex and having a prominent transverse ridge and weak prickle; seeds round-triangular, about three-sixteenths in, long, mottled and with ample oblique wing broadest near the center. 1. Syn. Plnus mitis Michx. 2. A. W., Ill, 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 Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924. Lowville, N. Y. : Romeyn Beck Hough
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