Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-07-03

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zeal Cluh, f,r November 1852. We iva
the toliowiu. articles which will lc ct
interest to many Of ogr readers The
first j. hy Edward /. Rand. a,.l ,
concerning:
rINrs BtNksIANA IS Tni COAST -
MAI>F.
This peculiarly northern species haS
it. province thus defined tn Professor
>argcu;'- Report on thu Forests +
North America; "Hav ~ Cha|aur.
New Brunswick. 10 the southern shore.
Of liudson's BAY. northwest ID the
Great Bear Lake. the valley Of the
Mackenzie river. and the eastern slorc
IF the Rocky Mountains between the
ft'v-sccori and ~ix,v-iirlh DEGREES If
north latitude; south ID uor;hcrn
Maine, Fcrri>butg, ~. The southern
Of Lake Michigan and central Mime
sofa GRAY, Mauna credits it 20 y
Maine y Michigan and Wisconsin,.
aud uorlhwari
In August. lhs2. Mr.. Fraak VI.
Day, # Philadelphia, SLOWED me an
uudouhted specimen Of this pine whir'
be had found On the summit &c Schao
die Mountain, il the town Of Goulls
horo, ou the eastern side Nc French
mans Bay, a point far 10 the south II
Il, hitherto accredited province some
wears passed before It was convenient
10 crafty my desire # visiting this
locality hni in August, lo-5. in com
pamv with President Eliot. Of Ilar, ard
University. Viz >ou, Mr.. Charles Eliot.
aud other friends. | was enabled t. ac-
complsh my wish. Landin. At little
cove short distance south of Winter
llarhor. >choodir Mountain lay a mile
or more -outh OF n. across d low. Thin
II wooded. somewha, hoggy plain.
Wood paths led towards the mountain
down along the west coast Of >chnadjc
Peninsula through groves II spruce.
Following one If these paths for about
half a mile. we suddenly came upon
the object 81 our search. before reach
In the mountain. Il va, straight
handsome tree of ut least twenty feet
III height. easily recognized hv it,
peculiar dark green short foliage. and
IL abundant curved cone, Other trees
We're soon seen. both large and small.
showing that thi, pine i, not limited To
the mountain. but might confidently he
expected over the entire peninsula
Proceeding towards the mountain We
saw here aud there more # II. Cross
ing a well travelled wood road which
apparently traverses the peninsula We
reached the gentle northern slope If
Schoodic Mountain. Its summit j. verv
similar TO the SUBMITS Of Mount De.-
ert Mountains, bare rock with thickets
OF alder. thurHum cdssmotdes aud red
oaH.-but where | should have looked
for iwarted spruces or for Pinus rjgtSn.
l found Pmus Ranksiana instead.
Strange. weather beaten, dwarfei
shrubs they were. twisted into many a
fantastic shape along The wind-swept
summit, aud very different from the
handsome trees we had seen below.
Dissenting the western cliffs of the
mountain we returned TO our starting
point by wood path running near the
western coast, and here we saw very
little of the Puus Banksianu. showing
that it is more abundant towards the
eastward in the interior of peninsula.
This unreported coast station of
P'nus Banksiana, so much farther
south than hitherto known. has always
had great interest for me in connec-
ton with the studies upon the fora Of
Mount Desert in which ! have for
many years been engaged. The To-
cality is separated from Mount Desert
Island by bay not over five miles in
width, yet up to the present time no
observer has seen even single tree of
Pinus Banksiana upon the island.
The second is written by John Ii.
Redfield, entitled:
PINUs BANKsIANA WITH CoREMA con
When Mr.. Rand year or two ago
mentioned to me the existence of Plnus
Banksiana upon Schoodic Peninsula,
was very DESTROYS to visit the locality,
and on the oath of August last was
enabled to 10 so in company with Mr..
Theodore ID. White, member Of the
Agassiz Club of New York. At that
time | had not the benefit of Mr..
Rand's notes as given above and, igno-
rant of the topography, We were
obliged to make our search very much
at random. From Winter Harbor we
drove by the road which crosses TO the
eastern side of the peninsula and then
turns southerly till it terminates into a
farm. Long before reaching this term
linus we passed through forest com
posed almost exclusively of Pinus
Banksiana, the trees reaching to the
height of at least twenty or thirty feet,
Occasionally spruce or arbor VITAE
appeared, but for the most part this
pine seemed to have displaced the usu-
al coniferous growth Of the Maine
coast Its very short leaves give the
tree somewhat the aspect OF spruce,
but its less conical form, and the
punching of the leaves towards the
extremity of the twigs, after the usual
manner of pines, render it easy to
recognize even ct a distance. We con-