Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
http://www.britishtrees.com/guide/scotspine.htm
Description: Large evergreen and only
native British Pine.
Where found: Found from
Uses past &
present: Strong general purpose timber.
Uses of wood - Preservatives are effective on this wood hence suitable for
outdoors. Used for fencing, joinery, building, flooring, box and packing case
manufacture, railway sleepers, pitwood, fibreboard,
chipboard, and telegraph poles. Referred to by the timber
trade as "redwood" or "deal".
Food and drink -
The needles yield a medicinal oil also
pitch, tars, resin and turpentine obtained from
the wood.
The Palm and the Pine
From the German of Heine. http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/3515
In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps: around it snows have thrown
A covering of white.
It dreams forever of a Palm
That, far i' the Morning-land,
Stands silent in a most sad calm
Midst of the burning sand.
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Point Lookout Prison, 1864.
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THE ENDSidney
Lanier's poem: The Palm and the Pine