Some old growth forests before European settlement contained giant White Pines standing over 150 feet (45 meters). In the 1980s a tree growing near Syracuse, New York, was determined to be 458 years old. Often these stands of straight, old growth trees towered around 150 feet (45 meters) or more and were over 200 years old. Legend has it that its leaders met under a large White Pine.Įarly New England colonists encountered very large White Pines. The Haudenosaunee confederacy was founded by the Great Peacemaker sometime between 14. The Haudenosaunee confederacy of northeastern North America chose the White Pine as its “Tree of Peace.” The five leaves symbolize the joining of the five founding nations-Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca-that made up what the English called the Five Nations Confederacy and the French termed the Iroquois League. Photo by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 <, via Wikimedia Commons Here are immature and mature white pine cones.

Fertilized female flowers become long, easily identifiable cones up to 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) long that hang downward from the tips of branches. White Pine is monecious, with male and female flowers on the same tree. Photo by the author, hand by Willow Ann Sirch. An easy way to identify White Pine from other native pines is that there are five needles per fascicle or bundle. Each whorl represents one year of growth. White Pine is one of the few trees that you can roughly age by counting the whorls of branches. So, you can roughly tell the age of the tree by counting the number of whorls. From a distance they look full, soft, and “fluffy.” White Pine branches form whorls that arise from the same point, and each whorl represents one year’s growth. An easy way to remember this is “five needles per bundle, five letters in the word white.” The flexible, silky needles are usually about 5 inches (13 centimeters) long. White Pine can be told apart from other native pines by its five leaves per fascicle, or bundle. The trees lose some of their leaves every fall. Those yellow leaves on White Pines does not mean the tree is sick. The older leaves are usually closer to the trunk, and newer, younger growth is found on the outer twigs. Its leaves, or needles, usually last about three years and two winters before they turn yellow and fall off. The Eastern White Pine ( Pinus strobus) is one of these. They actually lose some of their leaves in the fall, or replace them gradually over time.

Jack B.As the fall foliage nears its peak of color here in southern New England, I can’t help but notice changes in those “evergreens.” Many trees we call evergreen are not.

Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956).

Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around (1956).

High Society (w/ Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong) (1956).

A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World (1956).

Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz (1949).

Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949).

Bing Crosby Sings Songs by George Gershwin (1949).

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949).

Bing Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Heywood, Louis Jordan (1948).

Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer (1948).

Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters (1948).

Selections from Welcome Stranger (1947).

Song Hits from Holiday Inn (w/ Fred Astaire) (1942).

These previously issued songs were featured on a 6-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. Roosevelt requested Bing’s record for the Roosevelt Library.' That’s how it may have sounded to President Roosevelt, who declared it his favorite song after 'Home on the Range' Mrs. Giddins considered Bing's recordings in his book saying: 'The most impressive of his new cowboy songs (including 'We’ll Rest at the End of the Trail', 'A Roundup Lullaby', 'Empty Saddles') was 'Twilight on the Trail', a lament introduced that year by Fuzzy Knight in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and sung by Bing as though it were an old western hymn. He also charted with 'My Little Buckaroo' and 'There’s a Gold Mine in the Sky'. Moving on to the Decca label, Crosby had huge hits with ' I’m an Old Cowhand', ' Empty Saddles' and ' Mexicali Rose'. Commenting on these early recordings, the writer Gary Giddins said '…it anticipated the golden age of gentle-voiced singing cowboys and the Irish sentiment of John Ford westerns that followed on their heels.' He recorded ' Home on the Range' for the first time then also. Cowboy Songs is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1939 featuring Western songs.Ĭrosby had recorded cowboy songs for the first time in 1933 and he had a huge hit with 'The Last Round-Up' that year on the Brunswick label.

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