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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
Subjects: White pine
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Dept. of Agriculture, Forestry Division
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Fig. 1.—White Pine mixed with Hardwoods in Central New York.
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Fig. 2.—Old White Pine Tree in mixed Forest (Young Pine in the Foregroundi in New York State. CHARACTER OF DISTRIBUTION, BY REGIONS. 13 In western New Yorl; the White Pine was once quite abundant as a concomitant of the hard-wood forest. Young growth is now creeping into every wood lot, while in Pennsylvania, the WhitePine occurred undoubtedly in the lower eastern counties in commercial quantities as well as in tlieadjoining counties of New Jersey, where it begins to be a tree of the mountains, the higher slopes,ridges, and tops becoming its favorite habitat. It is here largely associated with Hemlock, whichoften becomes the preponderant tree. Pure pine growth is rare, but the mixed hardwood forest isseldom without an admixture of White Pine to the extent, as a rule, of about 30 per cent numeri-cally, the soils within the range of its occurrence being seemingly everywhere quite favorable toits growth. Besides the Hemlock, the coniferous species with which it is found associated are

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