LOBLOLLY OR NORTH CAROLINA PIXE. 



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tlie largest scale by Doyle-Scribner rule not more than 700 feet. Tlie 

 trees are short bodied and frequently crooked and yield logs largely of 

 Grades III and lY. The rate of growth is slow and irregular, yet the 

 wood is tough and hard and the sapwood generally thick. (Plate 

 X, B.) The wood is fine grained but except in the butt log the quality 

 is not high. 



Table 6 shows the average condition of more than four hundred acres 

 . of savanna land measured by the chain method. 



LOBLOLLY PINE WITH CYPRESS IN DEEP SWAMPS. 



This type occurs in non-alluvial as well as in alluvial swamps. 

 These alluvial swamps border clear water streams within the Coastal 

 Plain, and the lower reaches of the muddy streams which head beyond 

 the Coastal Plain, where flooding is always shallow but may last for 

 several weeks. Around the Dismal Swamp in the Albemarle Sound 

 section and clseAvhere there are large areas of non-alluvial swamp, in 

 which a considerable portion of the forest growth is cypress and lob- 

 lolly pine with water gum. The proportion of pine decreases as the 

 flooding becomes deeper. Its growth also becomes slower. The pine 

 and cypress have nearly the same rate of growth. (Tables U and 18, 

 column 6.) 



