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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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THE RED OR NORWAY PINE (Pinus resinosa) The leaves are slender and long, dark green and lustrous, in zs, rising out of long sheaths. The cones have thick, woody scales,destitute of prickles. The pale-red wood is used for masts and bridge timbers The Pines and fungous injuries. Lumber used in heavy construction; forbridges, piles, docks, buildings, masts and spars. The red pine is the only American member of a group of Old-World pines of which P. sylvestris, the Scotch pine of Europe, isa familiar example. The paired leaves and red bark are signs ofkinship. Both are common in cultivation in America, and weshall distinguish the native tree by its longer leaf and the heavytufting of its twigs; the short leaves of P. sylvestris are thinlyand evenly scattered along its branches. An early Spanish explorer erroneously described this tree asidentical with the variety of the Scotch pine that grows inNorway. In this way it came by its second name. There is a lustiness and symmetry of growth and

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