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sandiiicss and poor (juality will produce very few kinds 

 of trees which have any economic importance. No val- 

 uable broad leaved trees (oaks, etc.) thrive on these 

 lands, and amonif the conifers (pines, etc.) the long- leaf 

 pine is the only one g-rowing- naturally on them. The 

 short leaf pine, where the loam sub-soil lies near the 

 surface, is rareh^ found, and it is onl}^ after the g^round 

 has been cultivated and enriched and the moister la3^ers 

 of earth have been broug'ht to the surface that the lob- 

 lolly pine will g-row there. So it seems that the long* 

 leaf pine is the only native tree of much value which 

 flourishes on these barren sandy lands. There are 

 very few, if any other, forests in the eastern United 

 States so peculiarly limited as to the variety of valua- 

 ble tree g-rowth as the long- leaf pine forest, particu- 

 larly when it g-rows on the sand barrens, and there are 

 no other forests which demand such care to o1:>tain a 

 reg'rowth of the orig'inal dominant species. Many 

 kinds of trees after being- lumbered or burnt out are 

 succeeded b}^ smaller and less valued species, but the 

 orig'inal g-rowth in time agfain takes possession of the 

 land. This is the case with the spruce forests of 

 western North Carolina, and the white cedar (juniper) 

 in the eastern section of the State. However it may 

 have been primarily in the long- leaf pine forests, this 

 is not the result under the present manag-ement of 

 these pineries. After the removal of the pine the land 

 quickly becomes waste land, and passes from a g-rowth 

 of sand black jack to utter barrenness. No where is 

 there any gfeneral sig-n of either the long- leaf or an}^ 

 other pine ag-ain forming- a prominent part of the gfrowth 

 on these sand hills. 



Unless there is some radical chang-e in their manag-e- 

 ment, these lands may even cease to produce the few 



