This should be done after the new growth starts.
Eastern white pine takes shearing very well. In the proper site location, eastern white pine can make an excellent large background screen. A needle may persist as evergreen for two or three years before falling to the ground. The rust organism uses wild and cultivated currants and gooseberries (Ribes spp.) as alternate hosts and so is more of a problem in northern areas where currants grow wild.Īlthough white pines are considered evergreen, the needles do show yellow autumn color and fall off the tree. The disease kills the main branches of the pine and can be fatal. In certain parts of the U.S., white pine blister rust limits the utility of eastern white pine. When the northern white pine was logged out, the lesser-quality southern white pine of the Appalachians was logged until it was depleted. 1 natural resource until the timber ran out in 1900. After independence was obtained, the reckless exploitation of the towering white pines started in New England and moved through the Great Lakes states. The colonists' anger toward Britain's intrusions was fueled by these visible reminders and the ownership of the white pine trees was a major motivating factor for the American Revolution. Alarmed by the colonists' "timber stealing" from the crown's land, William and Mary decreed that the best specimens were to be saved for the Royal Navy and their agents marked those trees with the royal emblem. American colonists relied on white pine as one of their few exports, along with fir and fish. The quality of the wood and the long straight stems have made it ideal for many uses, particularly as shingles and ship masts. Primeval white pine forests towered to 250 feet when Europeans first discovered this bountiful resource. White pine was once the dominant tree in its range and the tallest native tree in eastern North America. Not wanting to rely on the difficult-to-cut hardwoods for their coffins, "coffin pines" (white pines) were planted at new homesteads. When settlers moved westward they found primarily hardwoods. The wood of the white pine is exceptionally light and strong, resists warping and is easily cut in any Pinus strobus (Eastern White Pine) Pine Family (Pinaceae) pg.2 Additional information (continued): direction. 8+ White Pine ( Pinus strobus ), an evergreen conifer, is widely distributed throughout eastern North America including all of Ohio.
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