WHITE PINE[1] (_Pinus Strobus_) [1] The following 12 species are usually classed soft pines: White Pine (_Pinus strobus_); Sugar Pine (_Pinus lambertiana_); Western White Pine (_Pinus monticola_); Mexican White Pine (_Pinus strobiformis_); Limber Pine (_Pinus flexilis_); Whitebark Pine (_Pinus albicaulis_); Foxtail Pine (_Pinus balfouriana_); Parry Pine (_Pinus quadrifolia_); Mexican Pinon (_Pinus cembroides_); Pinon (_Pinus edulis_); Singleleaf Pinon (_Pinus monophylla_); Bristlecone Pine (_Pinus aristata_). The best known wood of the United States has never been burdened with a multitude of names, as many minor species have. It is commonly known as white pine in every region where it grows, and in many where the living tree is never seen, except when planted for ornament. The light color of the wood suggests the name. The bark and the foliage are of somber hue, though not as dark as hemlock and many of the pines. The name Weymouth pine is occasionally heard, but it is more used in books than by lumbermen. It is commonly supposed that the name refers to Lord Weymouth who interested himself in the tree at an early period, but this has been disputed. In Pennsylvania it is occasionally called soft pine to distinguish it from the harder and inferior pitch pine and table mountain pine with which it is sometimes associated. It is the softest of the pines, and the name is not inappropriate. In some regions of the South, where it is well known, it is called northern spruce pine in recognition of the fact that it is a northern species which has followed the Appalachian mountain ranges some hundreds of miles southward. There is no good reason for this name when applied to white pine. It should be remembered, however, that no less than a dozen tree species in the United States are sometimes called spruce pine. Cork pine is a trade name applied more frequently to the wood than to the living tree. It is the wood of old, mature, first class trunks, as nearly perfect as can be found. Pumpkin pine is another name given to the same class of wood. It is so named because the grain is homogeneous, like a pumpkin, and may be readily cut and carved in any direction. It is the ideal wood for the pattern maker, but it is now hard to get because the venerable white pines, many hundred years old, are practically gone.