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Show "Norway Pine" Misnomer; Forest Service Orders It Shall Be Known as "Red Pine" The Federal Forest service has decreed that hereafter the Norway pine, so common to the Lake states, shall be known as. and called, the red pine. Instructions to this ciToct have been sent to a'.l Njt:r:r.r.l f-r-e?t custodians. The name "Xorwny" hrs been in common usage with us n'.:.-. ""h it is a misnomer. Acccrc; ' X to aiii:- ti-tics ti-tics the name is v. -y out f pl.-ice. for the tree is r-t a frr:;r.!-r but a native cf North America. It is related re-lated that the name N rv. ;,y r-e was given the tree ty a f; .-.r.Ub car-tain who fir', f und it here. Its close rcson-.b'nnre to r s he had seen in Norway c.iufcd h.rr. to s.ip-pose s.ip-pose it identic;.! with stn-h as re had seen grc-A mg there, v. iiirn ui.r.runt-cd'.y ui.r.runt-cd'.y were Scottish pines. Simon B. E'.Iiott. in his work rn important iiir.h. r trees rf the Ur.. tea i-.i' ;s :Z.i: ;V-V. F.rs r. .-n.-.sa. which it is called, rr c.-.r.s rc s .p p. re. and why the red rme shruhi 1 be given that name when its wre.d c s less res. a than any ehhrr i hard timber p.r.e is very strar.se." The name red pine is arpropriaie for this tree and is quite generally recognized throughout its eastern range. The bark and wor.d are rcrl-ci!r;h, rcrl-ci!r;h, the wii.tor buels re-d-brcovn, the stau iiiate fh overs scarle't er retid ih purple and the scales of the p.it.I- iate' flowers scarl-t. j The red p.ne, next to the white j pine, u.-fd to he the- most irn;o rt,.ot timher tree if the Lahe ?!..; s. To-1 To-1 day i; is jlao'ed as oi-'o.-.vtly as 1 white and j.ck ever state and ! ,!-end ,!-end reorvato us. It has one ad-! ad-! vautcge ever v.h.'c f--r rt f--rts-l.-.t;'.n r, Jr-5 o v .11 tal-ie root ar.d thrive rn soils too ftT.ie and l.ght 1 I r white pine, and for this reao n ' is fai.r.d in e:t oa.vc stands on -...(.- sandy r'.ah.s e.f the N .rlh. |
