pine cone

Cone Mills features in all the major chapters of the 20th century.

Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.

Because this food source could abruptly disappear at any time, cutworm moths cannot be counted on to replace pine nuts.

This high-altitude pine needs to be 50-80 years old before it even begins to produce cones.

Meat, especially outside the park, is a nutritious but deadly alternative to pine nuts.

On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.

With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.

While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors shall pine away in the end.

After this it wound along on ridges and in ravines till it reached the heart of a great pine forest, where stood a saw-mill.

But upon his head, instead of the ordinary cone-shaped hat worn by the men of the country, was a very peculiar structure.