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ter of three to four feet; and it is found also in the swamps 

 of Pender and Onslow and in low grounds of other eastern 

 counties. It has been cut to a small extent for floorino 

 and furniture, and in the northern counties small quanti- 

 ties of sugar are made from the sap. 



A. dasycarpitm Ehrh. (White or Silver Maple): A small 

 tree, rarely more than two feet in diameter, sparsely dis- 

 tributed in all portions of the State, usually in moist 

 places; more abundant in the mountain counties. 



A. rubrum L. (Red or Swamp Maple): Tree two to three 

 feet through and rarely sawn, and then for ceiling; abun- 

 dant, especially in moist places, in all portions of the 

 State. 



Robinia Pseudacacia L. (Yellow Locust): Once very com- 

 mon through the mountain counties, though it has been 

 very largely used up for posts in thickly settled regions. 

 It is still widely distributed and abundant in Rutherford, 

 Polk and other south-western counties, and occurs spar- 

 ingly in the middle district. In Haywood and Swain there 

 are factories making from it insulating pins for telegraph 

 poles. The trees are one and one-half to two and one-half 

 feet in diameter; sixty to eighty feet high. The wood is 

 yellow, hard, and resists exposure and decay. 



Cladraslis tinctoria Raf. (Yellow Wood): A small tree, 

 one and one-half feet in diameter; forty to sixty feet high, 

 with a deep yellow hard wood; it is mostly confined to rich 

 "coves" of Graham, Macon, Clay and Cherokee counties, 

 but is very frequent through these. It has been used in 

 Cherokee county for making furniture. 



Pruniis serotina Ehrh. (Wild Cherry): Occurs all over 

 the State, but only in the mountain counties does it reach 

 sufficient size and abundance to become a valuable timber 

 tree. There in rich, cold "coves" it becomes a tree two 

 to four feet in diameter and eighty to one hundred feet high. 

 It is a fine-grained, medium hard, red wood, taking a fine 



