The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . by the growth of thestems that bear them. Chopping frequently reveals cones in thesolid wood—a peculiar kind of modified knot. The tree is unim-portant to the lumber trade, being inferior in quality and scant inquantity. It grows near the coast on either side of northernFlorida and west into Alabama. It is used locally as masts forsmall vessels. The Spruce Pine (P. glabra, Walt.) is a close relative ofthe shortleaf, P. echinata. It grows from South Carolina toLouisiana, in lowlands,
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . by the growth of thestems that bear them. Chopping frequently reveals cones in thesolid wood—a peculiar kind of modified knot. The tree is unim-portant to the lumber trade, being inferior in quality and scant inquantity. It grows near the coast on either side of northernFlorida and west into Alabama. It is used locally as masts forsmall vessels. The Spruce Pine (P. glabra, Walt.) is a close relative ofthe shortleaf, P. echinata. It grows from South Carolina toLouisiana, in lowlands, solitary or in considerable groves. Itattains the height of 120 feet, and spreads over a considerableterritory in northwestern Florida. Little use is made of its light,soft wood beyond the local fuel supply. It is known as cedarpine in Mississippi. Its foliage is soft, and bright, dark green,being shed when but two years old. The Jersey or Scrub Pine (P. Virginiana, Mill.) is anotherof those unfortunate trees whose lot seems to be to extort ameagre and miserable living out of worthless soil. A tortuous 1. A. Winter bud (some leaves cut away to show bud) THE JERSEY PINE {Pinus Virginiana) This also is a scrub pine; it grows on the pine barrens of New Jersey, a pendulous, discouraged tree. Its grey-green leavesare in bundles of twos. It does as well as a tree can on worthless soil. In Indiana it becomes a pyramidal tree forty feet cones are dark-red, curved, and armed with sharp prickles
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