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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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JERSEY PINE. SCRUB PINE. Piiuis Virginiana Mill.-^
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Fig. i6. Branch with leaves and mature and young cones, 1-3, seeds, 4 ; detached leaf-clusters, 5.17. Trunk of tree near Washington, D, C. Handbook of Trees of the ^ortiierx Si AND Can IT Tlie Jersey Pine is usually a tree of mediumstature, rarely more than 40 or 50 ft. inheight, or of greater thickness of trunk than18 in. In the western part of its range, how-ever, particularly in southern Indiana, itsometimes attains twice the above dimensions.It develops a rather irregular wide roundedtop of long and somewhat pendulous branches,though when young the trees are more of apyramidal habit of growth. It is readily dis-tinguished by its short twisted leaves dis-tributed in pairs along its purple branchlets.The bark of trunk is dark reddish brown, roughwith scaly irregular plates and ridges. Thetree has little to recommend it from an orna-mental or economic standpoint, its chief pointof merit being the facility with which itpropagates itself and covers neglected wornout agricultural land w

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