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Side 17 - Province, by and with the Advice and Consent of the rest of the Members of the General Assembly, now met at Charles-Town, for the South-West Part of this Province, and by the Authority of the same...
Side 9 - ... of this height. Some stocks, favored by local circumstances, attain much, larger dimensions, particularly in east Florida. The bark is somewhat furrowed, and the epidermis detaches itself in thin transparent sheets. The leaves are about a foot long, of a beautiful brilliant green, united to the number of three in the same sheath, and collected in bunches at the extremity of the branches. They are longer and more numerous on the young stocks, which are sometimes cut by the negroes for brooms.
Side 13 - ... ice which sometimes overloads the leaves. It is worthy of remark that the branches of resinous trees consist almost wholly of wood of which the organization is even more perfect than in the body of the tree. The reverse is observed in trees with deciduous leaves.
Side 51 - ... colony during a period of two years, to any one who should agree to pay eight shillings a barrel and twelve shillings for each half hogshead, was repealed on June 9, 1671. An act of June 8, 1671, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, granted to a company a ten-years monopoly of the right to make for sale " pitch, rozin, turpentine, oyle of turpentine or masticke of the pine or cedar trees of this jurisdiction.
Side 11 - At all times there is a more or less complex overlapping of generations, so that emergence and attack are continuous during the entire period of activity; consequently, there is a continuous dying of trees within the infested areas. Under average or normal conditions of the activities of this beetle a few scattering trees are killed by it each year in mature stands of pine timber throughout the Southern States where the pine is common. If, however, from any cause, conditions become favorable for...
Side 15 - The leaves are fine, of a light green, six inches long, and united to the number of three and sometimes of four on young and vigorous stocks. The bloom takes place in the beginning of April ; the aments are nearly an inch long, and are bent and intermingled like those of the long-leaved pine. The cones are about four inches in length, and armed with strong spines ; while closed they have the form of an elongated pyramid, and when open of a rhombus more or less perfect : the seeds are cast the first...
Side 11 - From three to five generations occur annually. The first generation begins with the eggs deposited by the first beetles that fly and attack the trees in the spring and by those of the overwintered broods as they make successive attacks during the spring and early summer. The second generation begins with the eggs deposited by the adults of the first generation, and so on until cold weather stops their activities.
Side 13 - ... of the summits of those that are felled for timber, and of limbs broken off by the ice which sometimes overloads the leaves. It is worthy of remark that the branches of resinous trees consist almost wholly of wood, of which the organization is even more perfect than in the body of the tree.
Side 9 - ... inches for two-thirds of this height. Some stocks, favored by local circumstances, attain much larger dimensions, particularly in East Florida. The bark is somewhat furrowed, and the epidermis detaches itself in thin transparent sheets. The leaves are about a foot long, of a beautiful brilliant green, united to the number of three in the same sheath, and collected in bunches at the extremity of the branches : they are longer and more numerous on the young stocks.
Side 18 - There is more pitch and tarr made in the two Carolinas than in all the other Provinces on the Continent and rather more in this than in South Carolina but their two commodities (tarr especially) bear so low a price in London (1000 pound Barrels scarce clearing 20s.