Horticultural Value.—Hardy in New England; a tall, dark-foliaged evergreen, for which there is no substitute; grows rapidly in all well-drained soils and in exposed inland or seashore situations; seldom disfigured by insects or disease; difficult to transplant and not common in nurseries. Propagated from seed.
Plate V.—Pinus resinosa.
| 1. Branch with sterile flowers. |
| 2. Stamen, front view. |
| 3. Stamen, top view. |
| 4. Branch with fertile flowers and one-year-old cones. |
| 5. Bract and ovuliferous scale, outer side. |
| 6. Ovuliferous scale with ovules, inner side. |
| 7. Fruiting branch showing cones of three different seasons. |
| 8. Seeds with cone-scale. |
| 9, 10. Cross-sections of leaves. |
Pinus sylvestris, L.
Scotch Pine (sometimes incorrectly called the Scotch fir).
Indigenous in the northern parts of Scotland and in the Alps, and from Sweden and Norway, where it forms large forests eastward throughout northern Europe and Asia.
At Southington, Conn., many of these trees, probably originating from an introduced pine in the vicinity, were formerly scattered over a rocky pasture and in the adjoining woods, a tract of about two acres in extent. Most of these were cut down in 1898, but the survivors, if left to themselves, will doubtless multiply rapidly, as the conditions have proved very favorable (C. H. Bissell in lit., 1899).
Like P. resinosa and P. Banksiana, it has its foliage leaves in twos, with neither of which, however, is it likely to be confounded; aside from the habit, which is quite different, it may be distinguished from the former by the shortness of its leaves, which are less than 2 inches long, while those of P. resinosa are 5 or 6; and from the latter by the position of its cones, which point outward and downward at maturity, while those of P. Banksiana follow the direction of the twig.