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Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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LOBLOLLY PINE. OLD-FIELD PINE. ROSEMARY PINE. Piniis Taeda L.
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Fig. 6. Brarch with leaves, mature cones and young cones,with escaping seeds, 3. 7. Trunk of a large tree in Eastern Virginia. detached leaf-clusters, 2 ; cone Handbook of Trees of the Xorthebn States and Canada. The Loblolly Pine sometimes attains theheight of 125 ft. with straight trunk 2 ft. indiameter and. wlien growing in the open, withspreading brantlii-s which form a roundedpyramidal head. Like several others of thesoutiiern trees it extends uj) into the territorycovered by this handbook only in the coastregion, where its sondier tops of dark greenare familiar objects along the borders ofswamps and lowlands, in company with th-Short-leaf Iine, 8weet and Sour fJums,Spanish, Pin, I^aurel and other Oaks. Moker-nut Hickory, etc. The wood is rather brittle, weak, coarse-grained and not durable, of a j^ellowish browncolor and abundant lighter sap-wood. It islargely manufactured into lumber for interiorfinishing, general construction purposes andfor the spars of vessels. The weight of

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