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Identifier: whitepinepinus00spal (find matches)
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
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nds, which elsewheic wouldbe occupied by hardwoods. With this change in eomjKJsition goes a decrease in development;thesizes both in diameter and height are reduced. It is an interesting fact that both in Wis(U)nsin and Minnesota the pine area does not, as inthe eastern held of distribution, gradually fade out towaid the i)rairie, but thi! true iiine woodscease abruptly within .50 or K) ndles at most Iroin the demareatitm line of the jirairie, leaving theinterveiMiig groiiml to P.irch and Aspen or Scrubby Oak and Jack Pine openings. In the (Jamidian extension of the species ))ure pinery is very rare. The great bidk ol themost i)roductive i)ine country lies northward and westward from the mouth of the Ottawa Itiverto Georgian Bay in mixed growth, which consists mainly of hardwoods, with Hemlock, Spruce,Arborvita- (Cedar), and Balsam, while the lower tiers of Ontario are of the same character olhardwoods, with little scattering piue, as in southern Michigan, The eastern extension of the
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S Q S D □ a a 0 • o S @ ffl NOTES ON UIONKHAL DISTRIBUTION. 15 field of commorcial piiio in Canada followed mainly tho St. Lawrence Kiver as far as Quebec^ OnNewlbtindland tlie species is indigenous to nearly the whole of tlic island, and in some parts pro-duces considt^rable (piantities of nieichantable timber. At its northwestern linut the forest fadesout into prairie, the White fine gradually disappearing, while at the northern limit the changeis into Spruce forest. NOTES ON GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. Hr. N. L. Hrittoii, for soino ye;ir8 coiinoctod with the gcolo^iciil Hurvoy of Now .Jersey, writi-s of I lie ori^cirreiiceof White Piue in tliat State as follows: Pino Brook Station and sparingly northward along the Southern Railroad of New Jersey (Britton); sparingly3 niile.s sonth of Woodbury, (iloucester Couuty ((anliy), and friqMfnt in the middle .and northern portions of theSlate. Then^ are no White Pin(^ forests in New .Jersey, an<l the largest grove Known to nie is of Imt a f

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