Turpentine, if I'm not mistaken. They did that here in New Jersey in some places as well (with Pitch Pines).
--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Carolyn Summers <[email protected]> wrote: From: Carolyn Summers <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 7:18 PM Why did they collect the sap? What did they use it for? -- Carolyn Summers 63 Ferndale Drive Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 914-478-5712 > From: JamesRobertSmith <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:40:45 -0700 (PDT) > To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce > > > When I was a kid my dad would take me on Indian relic hikes that would > invariably go through various slash pine plantations. This was in > south Georgia. The plantation owners would literally "slash" the > pines--make a wound in the bark--and place pans to collect the sap > beneath the slashes. Similar, in some ways, to collecting maple sap, > in principle. Plantation slash pines look a lot different from wild > ones. The ones on plantations grow straight and true, but the ones > that I encounter in natural settings have a lot of large limbs and > quite a bit of differentiation in the trunks. One thing notable about > them are the really long needles. Longer than most other pines I've > seen. > > > > On Sep 25, 8:34 am, [email protected] wrote: >> Larry, >> >> Slash pine is a cool species. But I know very little about it and where it >> fits into the ecosystem as well as its economic uses. Wasn't it an important >> source of turpentine? I would image our buddy Will Fell could tell us a lot >> about the species. >> >> Bob >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Larry" <[email protected]> >> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 7:55:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce >> >> Bob, Cool! I really enjoy those odd trees. I have a couple of odd >> limbed Slash Pines close by. I've been meaning to post them. Larry > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
