Note 16 — PART II. BRITISH FOREST TREES USED AS NAVAL TIMBER.

The Canadian red pine resembles P. sylvestris or Norway pine so much, that it is usually styled Norway pine by the settlers: Though different, it is so nearly allied to P. sylvestris, that we consider the number of sap-growths may be referred to the climate and soil, and not to the kind,—that is, that, were it grown in Britain, if it did not at first, it would in the course of time come to have fewer sap-growths.