228 HARPER: SPRING ASPECTS OF COASTAL PLAIN VEGETATION 
A large part of the coast region has been under cultivation 
ever since the colony of Georgia was founded, about 175 years ago, 
and most of the inhabitants are negroes, as is the case in many 
other parts of the South where agriculture has long been the leading 
industry. This region corresponds in part to the “‘savannas”’ 
and “‘live oak bottoms” described by Dr. R. H. Loughridge in 
his report on the cotton production of Georgia.* 
The coastward edge of the pine barrens is rather vaguely 
defined, and probably irregular as well, and in these 53 miles quite 
a number of pine-barren plants were seen, which probably indicate 
tongues or projections of the pine-barren region extending a short 
distance across the railroad. 
It happens that on July 17, 1909, I came into Savannah from 
the southwest, the last 57 miles being on the same route here 
described, and then turned westward, passing out of the coast 
region near Meldrim, about 18 miles from Savannah. Inorder 
to compare the summer and winter aspects of the vegetation 
along what is for the most part the same route, I will here place 
in parallel columns the results of the two trips, the first from Wal- 
thourville to Savannah and Meldrim, 56 miles, and the second 
from the Savannah River to Savannah and near Walthourville, 
53 miles. 
July March 
TREES TREES 
33 Pinus Taeda 29 Pinus Taeda 
24 Liquidambar Styraciflua 20 Acer rubrum 
23 Nyssa biflora | 15 Nyssa biflora 
20 Pinus serotina 15 Pinus serotina 
12 Taxodium imbricarium 12 Pinus palustris 
11 Pinus Elliottii 8 Pinus Elliottii 
6 Pinus palustris 8 Magnolia glauca 
6 Acer rubrum 7 Quercus nigra 
4 Taxodium distichum 6 Magnolia grandiflora 
3 Nyssa uniflora 5 Liquidambar Styraciflua 
2 Nyssa Ogeche 4 Taxodium imbricarium 
*Tenth Census U. S. 6: 317, 318, 423, 424. ; 
monwealth of Georgia, 114-116. 1885. 
be found in Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I7: 20. 190 
1884. Also in Henderson's Com- 
J. A. Bonsteel and H. H. 
Bennett, respectively (circulars 19 and 21 of the U. S. Bureau of Soils, July, 1909, 
and February, 1910). 
