Foliage of the White Pine

The leaves of the White Pine are thickly disposed on the branches, in little bundles or parcels of five. The cones are about five inches long: they hang, when nearly ripe, in a pendulous manner from the branches, and open, to shed their seeds, about the first of October. The bark on trees less than twenty years old is remarkably smooth, but becomes cracked and rough, like that of the other Pines, when they grow old, although it never splits and separates itself from the trunk in scales, as in other species.