. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the. Noethekn States and Canada. The White Pine is one of the tallest trees of the forests of northeastern America, some- times attaining the height of 200 ft. with a long columnar trunk 3-5 ft. in diameter. When growing in the open it develops a wide pyramidal head easily distinguished from all other Pines by its bluish green fine-needled foliage and the dark deeply furrowed bark with which the large trunks are vested. It once constituted the bulk of large tra
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the. Noethekn States and Canada. The White Pine is one of the tallest trees of the forests of northeastern America, some- times attaining the height of 200 ft. with a long columnar trunk 3-5 ft. in diameter. When growing in the open it develops a wide pyramidal head easily distinguished from all other Pines by its bluish green fine-needled foliage and the dark deeply furrowed bark with which the large trunks are vested. It once constituted the bulk of large tracts of forest, but being by far the most valuable timber tree of its range these tracts have been largely cleared away to meet the needs and wastes of a growing population, and now only occasional monaichs, towering head and shoulders above the surrounding foi'ests of other growth, suggest the magniflcance of the primeval Pine forests. Fortunately it is quick to reproduce itself and many tracts of land, where cultivation has been neglected, become quickly covered with its new second growth. The wood of the White Pine is the most valuable of the Pines for house finishing, window-sash, blinds, etc. It is light, soft, verj' easily worked, durable and of a light pinkish brown color with thin lighter sap-wood. A cubic foot when absolutely dry weighs Leaves in clusters of 5, with loose-scaled de- ciduous sheaths, very slender, in. long, pale bluish green with rows of ventral stomata, peripheral resin-ducts and a single flbro-vascular bundle ; branchlets smooth, regdish green. Floivers: starainate yellow, about % in. long; pistillate pinkish purple, erect, terminal, pedunculate. Fruit: cones become drooping and about half grown at the close of the first season, 4-10 in. long at maturity, long-stalked, cylindric and often curved, with fhin unarmed scales and liberating their seeds in September ; seeds about V^ in. long, mottled and with large wings.^ 1. A. W., II,
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