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From Charles Mohr, Agent for the Forestry Division of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Mobile, Alabama. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



MOBILE, ALABAMA, January 31, 1892. 



PROF. EDWIN J. HOUSTON, Philadelphia, Pa. 



DEAR SIR, Your letter of the 23d has been received. 

 According to your request, I send you enclosed a list of timber 

 trees, which might be regarded as adapted for the reforestation 

 of denuded areas in the Gulf States east of the Mississippi 

 Eiver. 



In the selection of the trees, I had to be guided solely by 

 my observations made in the different sections of the regions 

 named, and had to confine myself entirely to native species, 

 no information being on hand in regard to trees from other 

 sections of the United States, or exotics. 



To shorten matters, I refer you for information about the 

 habits of the species named in the list, to the preliminary of 

 important forest trees in the United States, in Mr. Fernow's 

 " Eeport to the Commissioners of Agriculture" (Forestry Di- 

 vision) for the year 1886, where, also, notes on the economic 

 uses of each will be found. The numbers in my list refer to 

 the same species mentioned in the above report. 

 I remain truly yours, 



CHARLES MOHR. 



White Cedar, Chamcecyparis sphwroidea. 

 Red Cedar, Juniperus Virginiana. 

 Bald Cypress, Taxodium distichum. 

 Long-leaved Pine, Pinus palustris. 

 Loblolly Pine, Pinus tceda. 



