This evergreen tree is valued for pitch, tar, resin & turpentine, as well as for its wood
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Naval stores and the longleaf pine - North Carolina Digital History  If you've ever mistakenly thrown an evergreen bough on a campfire, used a ... The sap of pine trees is full of resins that help to protect the pine's soft wood and are ... Clearly, England needed a new source of naval stores, and it turned to its North ... prices for tar, pitch, turpentine, rosin, hemp, and masts from British colonies.
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pine facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about pine  The white pine (P. strobus) has straight-grained soft wood with little resin, used ... Its wood is somewhat heavier and is suitable for general construction. ... Although the trunk is often gnarled, making it unsuitable for good lumber, it supplies much ... tree in the United States, is one of the most valuable timber trees of Europe.
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Resins - US Forest Service  Resins can be produced through the bark of a tree, the flowers of an herb, or the ... Many cultures valued amber as religiously significant, due to its warm tones and ... used resins for incense as well, although from plants native to those areas. ... its resin stores while the new United States stored its own resin for pitch and tar.
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Scotch Pine - Herbs2000.com  ... evergreen tree in the garden and even inside the house during Christmas. ... Scotch pine pitch prepared by filtering the tar obtained from the wood was also ... high esteem for its antiseptic properties as well as the valuable impact on the respiratory system. ... In addition, Scotch pine trees also give up resin and turpentine.
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Ridiculous KJV Bible Corrections - The Pitch of Noah's Ark  The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated; used in caulking ships and .... The Latin word that appears in this quote of Pliny, as well as in the Latin Vulgate's translation of Gen. ... Dry distillation of wood results in a tar distillate and a pitch residue. ... As for the tree, its etymology may be derived from the use of cypress as pitch...
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Sc1ence Part 3 Flashcards | Quizlet  SCIENCE $100: This fossilized resin from prehistoric pines can preserve an insect ... $200: In a month an observer can see 59% of this heavenly body's surface.
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evergreen oak - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  "evergreen oak" definition: an evergreen oak of southern Europe having ... a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the ... any of various oaks (as a live oak, a holm oak, or a tan oak) with foliage that ... a southern European evergreen oak of the beech family, with hollylike leaves | its wood...
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Graceful conifers spruce up Southern Oregon - Mail Tribune  Oct 7, 2005 ... Ecological Perspectives Three spruce varieties ' Engelmann, Sitka and ... Of the four named for colors ' red, white, black and blue ' only blue...
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Commercial Timbers of The Caribbean - US Department of Agriculture  Caribbean region includes many millions of acres of forests containing ... In British Honduras the pine industry has reached its full ..... its wood and other parts, or certain characteristic features of the tree ... Most tropical American tree species and tim- bers of related ...... are noted for their great strength and durability and are...
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The Tree Guide - Arbor Day Foundation  This fruit tree is known for its juicy, sweet-tasting apricots that are good for fresh eating .... But as a landscape tree, it can be planted almost anywhere in the U.S. The ..... known for their delicate beauty, and the kousa variety adds a toughness that .... known as the American filbert) is a native shrub of the eastern United States.
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Flag History - 23/28 - Collins Flags Blog | Flying Proud  The Liberty Tree flag contains an image of a pine tree and the phrase, "An Appeal To Heaven" above it. ... It features the Union Flag (UK) in it's canton. ..... history of the Philly flag, which shows the city seal on a gold and sky blue background. ... means Let brotherly love continue, which is a mash up of both Greek and Latin.
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Fossil Amber - The Virtual Fossil Museum  Fossil Amber Fossil Tree Resin. ... Amber is also valued for its botanical and animal inclusions that are trapped by the sticky resin as it ... In temperate climates, the pines are prodigious producers of resin, which is used to make turpentine.
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Tree and Shrub Descriptions - NYS Dept. of Environmental ...  Dense pyramidal shape when young, becoming more open and flat-topped with age. ... These pine plantations stabilized the soil and provided shelter for eventual .... Cones upright, 2 to 3 inches long, disintegrate on tree leaving persistent ..... The leaves often have an almost rhombic outline with wedge-shaped base, rather...
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Jeopary Questions page 2283 - OUTDOORS - TriviaBistro.com  OUTDOORS: Campers know oak & maple produce little of this when used as firewood; pine & fir, lots (cough! cough!) 18th CENTURY AMERICA: During a storm...
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Giant Sequoias and Redwoods: The Largest and Tallest Trees
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Open A Print Ready Copy - Grace And Truth Ministries  Some scholars hold that the evergreen tree, a symbol of life to the pagans, ... had transformed this pagan symbol of fertility into a Christian symbol of rebirth. .... gifts for Saturnalia, a winter festival occurring about a week before Kalends. .... ancient Europeans believed that the mistletoe plant held magic powers to bestow life...
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Poems Found in Translation: Pushkin: The Upas Tree (From Russian)  Turned liquid in the midday blaze, ... No tigers come, no birds alight. ... And brought the poison back with haste: ... 1 The Upas Tree (Antiaris Toxicaria) produces a latex sap which, upon entering the human blood stream, causes cardiac ... This sap has historically been used in central and east Asia in blowdarts and arrows.
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Weyerhaeuser :: Sustainable Forestry  Trees are a remarkable resource that, when managed responsibly, can meet a wide ... For more than a century, we've been proving it's possible to harvest and replant ... We are proud that 100 percent of our timberlands are certified to sustainable ... ensuring these practices are being implemented through third-party audits.
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Common Forest Trees of North Carolina - NC Forest Service  Bitternut Hickory. 25 .... Eastern white pine needles are soft bluish-green, flexible and 3 to. 5 inches long. ... The wood of older trees is rather heavy and hard, of yellow- brown or ... paper pulp and poles. 7 ..... the nut is sweet and is enclosed in a very thick shell. .... There are two kinds of flowers on the same tree: the male, in.
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Tree (3 letters) - Crossword Helper  Tags. balsam symbol alpine origin needle cone evergreen wreath producer tree christma fir example chalet sapin softwood ore bearer larch seasonal oregon buy building yule material eg purchase source state sight ... Douglas ___
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Tree worship: why are our trees so sacred? - Telegraph  Dec 19, 2013 ... The tree is a symbol of our mastery over the harsh winter forest; a wild ... They muddle along, like enemies who have found themselves on a long ... adds, Christmas trees can have an important positive role at Christmas. ... The Banyan tree is important in Hinduism and Buddhism ... Which potato to grow.