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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s the leader. If anything happens to it the centralshaft is maimed for life, and either one side bud will have to bendupward and take the leaders place, or two will divide the honour,and a forked pine is the result. The buds on the crown of a baby white pine cluster at thetop—a circle of five around the central bud. In spring the leadergrows upward, and at its base five branches radiate. Next yearthe crown repeats the same story, and the tips of the sidebranches divide and elongate in the same way. The best growthis generally made by the crown buds in the very top of the tree.So it happens that we may count the years of our sapling by thewhorls of branches it bears. In the early years the growth isbeautifully symmetrical, if there is room for sun and air to reachthe little tree. Later the branches crowd each other, and someare killed. In deep woods where trees interfere, the stems arebare of living branches almost to the top. This is the lumbermans pine, a tree whose limbs die so 24
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Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company WHITE PINE GROWN IN OPEN GROUND (Pinus Strobus) Forest-grown trees have no branches on lower part and upper branches are shorter. The Pines young that there are practically no big knots in the lumber. Hecuts clear, beautiful boards out of such a tree, and there is verylittle waste. Or he squares the trunk for a big bridge timberwhose value and strength would be greatly lessened by largeknots. The great pine forests of lower Canada and the NorthernStates seemed inexhaustible to the early settlers. New Yorkand Pennsylvania had pineries that promised a lumber supply forgenerations to come. But alas! for human foresight. Theavarice of lumber companies and the blindness of politicians havesquandered the heritage of the people. The virgin forests aregone except in areas too scattered and small to tempt the lumber-men. Second growth covers some of the territory that wasstripped, but it will be hundreds of years before another suchcrop can com

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