100 TIMHKR PINKS OK THK SOI'THERN UNITKI) STATKS. 



Taiii.k II. — C roll III nf Shoriha/ I'hif diiihuj hUkjc of liijorous growth, from Jif I n In onv hnnihcil anil I wen I y i/eart. 



Tahi.k III. — drouth of Shuriltof I'ine durintj xitujv of »lotv growth, hiltal sinfjr of' lift-. 



From the geueral table (No. W ) and tlie corrcsjioudiiij; diagram it .seem.s tliat in the average 

 the tree at twenty is about 30 feet high, rcache.s 50 feet at tlic age of forty, and that its growth in 

 height is in the main lini.shed at tlie early age of 70. lu keeping with this, tin- growth in 

 diameter is quite rapid during the first fifty years, continues at a moderate pace up to 80, when 

 tlie age of extreme slow growth is entered. 



