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TIMBKR PINES OF THE 80UTHKRN UNITED STATES. 

 Tahi.e II. — (Iroirlh of I.ohlolhj I'iur ( /'iiiiis tiidn ) J'rnm fij'tij In one hundred and fifty-nix yearg. 



From Table III and the corresponding diagram, based uijou a considerable number of trees, it 

 appi^ars that the Loblolly I'ino is uearly 40 feet high when twenty years old ; tliat the length of the 

 mrrchiiiitalile timber (fiO feet) is attained at the age of forty; that this shaft lias a ba.sal diameter 

 of 20 inches at the age of one iiundicd years, and that the age of thrifty giowtli is practically at 

 an end when the tree is one hundred and ten years old. Comparing this table witli tliose for 

 Longleaf and Shortleaf iiines, the excellence of the Loblolly becomes apparent. 



