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Title: The White Pine (Pinus strobus Linnaeus)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Spalding, Volney M. (Volney Morgan), 1849-1918 Chittenden, F. H. (Frank Hurlbut), 1858-1929. Insect enemies of the White Pine Roth, Filibert, 1858-1925. Wood of the White Pine Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923
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Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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hts from ground in Ieunsylvania IIH :$>inn:in9, Spec. PI. ed. 1, 1001 (1731).IinuK feiiuifolia Salisliury, Prodr. .SSW (1796). LOCAL on COMMON NAMES. White Pine (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connectioit, New York, New .Tersey,Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois,Wisconsin, Michigan, Jlinnesota, Ohio, Ontario, Neliraska). Weymonth Pine (Massachusetts, South Carolina, European literature). Soft Pine (Pennsylvania). Northern Pine (South Carolina). Spruce Pine (Tennessee). BULLETIN No. 22. OlV. OF FORESTRY, U. 8. DEPT. OF AGR.
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A.ltocti JkTo. LKh.Hnlllmav*. THK WHITE PINE. INTRODUCTION. For two centuries and a half the White Pine has l)een universally employed for purposes ofconstruction in the Northern United States. Its abundance and the combination of (;ua)itieswinch adapts it to an almost unlimited number of uses have made it the most inii)ortaut and themost highly prized of all the tim))er trees of the region to which it is indigenous. In several ofthe Northern States it has been a more constant source of wealth and has yielded larger returnsthan any other single product. Thus, for instance, in 1879, a fair year for comparison, the naturalproducts of the State of Michigan were estimated by Governor Jerome as follows: Agrirnltural ))roiliict8 .1:88, ..00, 000 Timlier (iO, Olio, 000 Copper 8,000,000 Iron 10,000,000 Salt ^ 2,000,(KX) Fish 1, Om),000 According to this estimate the value of the timber products, chiefly White Pine, was at thattime, in round numbers, six times that of the iron, seven and one-h

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