Evelyn in his Diary mentions tasting a pine-apple from Barba dos at the table of Charles II —apparently the first mention of the fruit in English literature. Pine-apples are no longer grown If the immense footage cut from the Douglas fir (q.v.), com monly known to a large part of the lumber trade as Oregon or western pine, is added to that produced from the true pines, then the total footage marketed as pine lumber amounted in 1925 to 26,356,657,00o bd. ft., with a mill value of $672,412,685, or 68.8% of the footage and 62.6% of the mill value of all lumber manufactured in the United States.
Commercially, the lumber cut from the various kinds of pine is known as white, yellow, western yellow, sugar and lodge-pole pine, and is classified under these descriptive names in the census of manufactures. White-pine lumber includes that produced from the eastern white or Weymouth pine, the western white pine, the grey or jack pine and the Norway or red pine, the two last named belonging botanically with the yellow pines. Prior to 190o the eastern white pine was one of the chief lumber-producing trees in America, but the original forests have become so depleted that the tree now contributes only a minor fraction of the lumber marketed as white pine. The lumber from the eastern white, the
grey and the red pine is mostly cut in the northern border States from Maine to Minnesota. Western white-pine lumber is practi cally all produced in Idaho (389,267,00o bd. ft.) and Washington (90,559,000 bd. ft.).
Yellow-pine lumber is cut mainly in the southern States ; 7o% of the total is produced in five States : Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala bama, Texas and Georgia, which rank in the order named. The kinds of pine furnishing yellow-pine lumber all belong to the pitch pine group, and include the longleaf, loblolly, shortleaf, sand, slash, pitch, spruce, pond, mountain and Virginia pine, the long leaf, shortleaf, loblolly and slash pines ranking among the most important.
Western yellow-pine lumber, practically all cut from P. pon derosa, is produced chiefly in Oregon, 32%; California, 25%; Washington, 14%, and Idaho, 12%.
in Britain or Europe ; the principal sources are Hawaii, whose crop was valued at $59,395,090 in 5937, Cuba and the West Indies, the Philippines, British Malaya, and Florida in the U.S.A.