Pinus strobus
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Read about Pinus strobus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Pinus strobus, Linn. (Strobus Strobus, Small). White Pine. Figs. 2958,2963,2964. Attains 100, occasionally 150 ft., with horizontal branches in regular whorls forming a symmetrical open pyramid; in old age the head is usually broad and open and often very picturesque: branchlets greenish or light greenish brown, glabrous or slightly puberulous: winter buds ovate, acuminate: lvs. soft, bluish green, 2-4 in. long (or 3 1/2 -5): cones on stalks 1/2 -1 in. long, cylindric. slender, often curved, 2-4 in. long, with oblong- obovate scales; seed red-brown, mottled with black, 3 lines long. Newfoundland to Man., south to Ga., III. and Iowa. S.S. 11:538,539. A.G. 12:645; 13:1. Gn. 30, p. 404. F.E. 15:340. C.L.A. 11:310. H. W. 1:9, pp. 183-5.—Very valuable ornamental hardy pine of rapid growth, symmetrical when young, picturesque in old age: no tree is better adapted to break up the monotonous sky-line of plantations in northern parks. There are a number of gardens forms occasionally cult. Var. alba, Loud. (var. nivea, Carr). Low form of irregular habit, with almost silvery white foliage. Var. aurea, Carr. With yellow foliage. Var. glauca, Beissn. With light bluish green foliage. Var. brevifolia, Loud, (var. noma, Knight. Var. pygmaea, Hort.). Dwarf, compact, round bush, with short lvs. F.E. 20:788 (pi. 112); 29:569. Gt. 52, p. 435. Gn. M. 2:23. Var. fastigiata, Beissn. (var. pyramidalis, Hort.). with ascending branches, of narrow pyramidal or columnar habit. Var. prostrate, Arb. Kew. Dwarf, procumbent form, diffuse and trailing on the ground. Var. umbrac- ulifera, Knight. Dwarf, flat-topped bush, with short lvs. R.H. 1869, p. 38. There are also forms with variegated foliage. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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