JERSEY PINE; SCRUB PINE (Pinus Virginiana, Mill.). 30 to 40 feet. Loose, flat-topped, broadly pyramidal tree, with drooping branches. Bark reddish brown, in irregular, scaly, thin plates. Wood coarse-grained, brittle, pale orange to white, soft, weak, but durable in soil; used for fuel, rarely for lumber, pumps, water pipes, and fencing. Leaves in Fs, stout, gray-green, scattered on the twigs, 11 to 3 inches long, persistent 3 or 4 years. Flowers staminate orange-brown, crowded; pistillate solitary cones, green, tinged with rose, set opposite on short stalks, near middle of the new shoot. Fruits
oblong-conical, often curved, with red, spined scales and per sistent 3 or 4 years on the branches. Dist.: Long Island, New York, to southern Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee; New Jersey and south along coast to Georgia. Light sandy soil, of "pine barrens" it forms forests.