The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE WHITE PINE (Pinus Strobus) This tree has plume-like tufts of blue-green leaves in bundles of fives. The twigs have five buds around the central one,so the trunk and limbs send out whorls of five branches each spring. The pistillate flowers are near the itop of the twig andnidden among the leaves. The staminate cones cluster behind the new shoot and are yellow when ripe. The cones are slender,curved, pendant, with thin, unarmed scales. The tree is chief among the soft pines in th
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE WHITE PINE (Pinus Strobus) This tree has plume-like tufts of blue-green leaves in bundles of fives. The twigs have five buds around the central one,so the trunk and limbs send out whorls of five branches each spring. The pistillate flowers are near the itop of the twig andnidden among the leaves. The staminate cones cluster behind the new shoot and are yellow when ripe. The cones are slender,curved, pendant, with thin, unarmed scales. The tree is chief among the soft pines in the lumber trade.
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