. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Noethkkn States and Canada. 11 The Red Pine occasionally attains the height of 80 or 100 ft. with broad irregular pyramidal head and dark green foliage tufted in thick needles at the ends of its rough branchlets. It is an upland tree, being found on dry sandy soil and is distinctly northern in its distribu- tion. Never forming tracts of forest of any size, it is scattered in open groves where conditions favor its development, and many of the slop
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Noethkkn States and Canada. 11 The Red Pine occasionally attains the height of 80 or 100 ft. with broad irregular pyramidal head and dark green foliage tufted in thick needles at the ends of its rough branchlets. It is an upland tree, being found on dry sandy soil and is distinctly northern in its distribu- tion. Never forming tracts of forest of any size, it is scattered in open groves where conditions favor its development, and many of the slopes and ridges which overlook the lakes of the Adirondacks and New England are beautified by the presence of this tree. Its straight columnar trunks, rarely over 2 or 3 ft. in diameter, are vested in a reddish brown bark (hence the name) fissured into broad irregular plates and ridges which flake oft' in irregular scales. The wood is moderately heavy and hard and is valued for the spars of vessels, piles, sills, and lumber for genera! construction purposes. A cubic foot of the dry wood weighs The bark is occasionally used for tanning pur- poses. Jjtnrri^ in clusters of 2 with persistent sheaths, rather slpnder, 4-6 in. long, bearin? stomata on the ventral faces containing peripheral resin- ducts and 2 flhro-vascular bundles. Flowers: staminate about % in. long, in ample clusters. dark purple; pistillate subterminal, scarlet and with short stalks. Cones subterminal. ovoid- conical, about 2 in. long, subsessile, thickened at the rounded apex and unarmed : seeds about Vs in. long, compressed, triangular-ovoid, mottl-^d and with ample wing broadest below the middle and obliijue at apex. 1. A. W., I, 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. :
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