100 TIMBER PINES OF THE SOITIIERN UNITED STATES. 



T.Mil.K II. — Urowth iif Shurtlcaf I'iue ibiiinij sfaye of riyorous ijruutk, from fiftij to (iiie hundred and twenty iitiim. 



Tabi.k III. — (iron-ill of Shortleuf Pine diiriny uliiye of slow yrowth, hittut alayi- of life. 



I<'roiii tlie geiK'!'!'! table (Xo. IV) and the corrcspondiiii; diaurani it seeni.s tliat in the average 

 tlie tree at twenty i.s about 30 feet liigli, reaches 50 feet at tlie age of forty, and tliat its growtli iu 

 heigiit is in the main (iuished at the early age of 70. Iu keepiug with this, the growth in 

 diameter is (juite rapid during the first fifty years, continues at a moderate pace uj) to SO, when 

 the age of extreme alow growth is entered. 



