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occasionally the hemlock, more rarely the pme, forms the 

 body of the forest. The hardwoods are few in kind 

 and inferior in size and quality; the most valuable trees 

 of the forest are the conifers, pine and hemlock. 



A piece of virgin forest in Indiana, where abundant 

 crops of apples, grapes, and peaches indicate a milder 

 climate, is usually an oak wood, heavily mixed with a 

 great variety of other broad-leaved trees, but entirely 

 without coniferous timber. Here we meet several kinds 

 of oak, hickory, and ash, both black and white wal- 

 nut, cherry, basswood, elm, yellow poplar, sycamore, and 

 beech. Moreover, the trees are tall, with long, clear, 

 heavy shafts, furnishing the choicest lumber. 



In eastern Tennessee or western North Carolina the 

 warmer climate again changes our forest picture. The 

 yellow poplar and chestnut come to the foreground ; 

 the seA'eral oaks and hickories, a few magnolias, the 

 locusts, catalpa, mulberry, red gum, and others swell the 

 list of common species, and in addition the conifers reap- 

 pear ; the forest again has its sprinkling of pine. 



Although the nmnber of different kinds of trees has 

 thus been increased, the forest retains its general appear- 

 ance ; it is a fine, stately forest of hardwoods, and many 

 an acre of this forest could not be distinguished from 

 similar acres of our Indiana woods. 



Going through one of the fine "hummocks" of Fkjrida, 

 the land of cotton, the orange, and pineapple, where snow 



