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sandy soils, and the ground-water level fairly constant throughout 

 the year. 



In its relations to fire the pitch pine seems to be intermediate 

 between the spruces already mentioned and some of the southern pines. 

 The pine-barrens of Long Island and New Jersey everywhere bear the 

 marks of fire, which seems usually not to kill the older trees. Further 

 studies of this point are needed. 



This tree is usually too small, crooked or knotty to be of much 

 value for lumber, but where it is abundant it has been used for many 

 purposes, especially in the early days before transportation facilities 

 enabled better woods to compete with it so -strongly. The soil in which 

 it grows is of little value for ordinary agriculture, but in wet places 

 among the pines, especially in Massachusetts and New Jersey, large 

 crops of cranberries are gathered. The pine region of New Jersey for- 

 merly produced considerable quantities of bog iron ore 11 and glass sand. 12 



The Bed Cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) grows nearly throughout 





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Red Cedae (Juniperus Virginiana) and Various Hardwood Trees, among Limestone 

 Rocks on Mountain Slope Near Scottsboro, Alabama. March, 1913. 



eastern North America between — but hardly overlapping — the boreal 

 forests of high latitudes and altitudes and the tropical forests of south- 

 ern Florida. It is most abundant on the northwestern flanks of the 



n There is an interesting sketch of the old iron industry in southern New 

 Jersey by Gifford in The Popular Science Monthly for April, 1893. 

 12 See The Popular Science Monthly, 42 : 442, 830. 1893. 



