Pine
Pinus, a genus of trees of the natural order Coniferæ. The Linnæan genus includes all kinds of fir, larch, PINE BLUFF, a city of Arkansas, the and cedar; but as now limited the genus county-seat of Jefferson co. It is about Louis Southwestern and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern railroads.
It contains the State Colored Normal College, the Merrill Institute, a library, opera house, court house and other public buildings. It is the center of a fertile agricultural community. Cotton is largely grown. It has also an important lumber trade. The industries include railroad shops, cottonseed-oil mills, boiler works and sheet iron works. Pop. (1910) 15,102; (1920) 19,280.
Pinus is distinguished by monœcious 40 miles S. of Little Rock, on the St. flowers and woody cones with numerous two-seeded scales, the scales having an angular truncated apex. The leaves are linear and very narrow, of a very dark green color, growing in clusters or in pairs, and surrounded by scarious scales at the base. To this genus belong many noble and useful trees. They mostly grow in mountainous or other exposed situations, and their narrow leaves are admirably adapted to evade the force of winds. Many species of pines, some of them very beautiful and very valuable, are found in North America. Besides those long known, and which are found in the States and colonies near the Atlantic, a number of the noblest species of this genus have, during the 19th century, been discovered in California and the