LOBLOLLY OE NORTH CAROLINA PINE. 



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LOBLOLLY PINE ON LONGLEAF PINE FLAT LANDS. 



This type forms the great body of productive loblolly pine lands, 

 occupying possibly one-half of the total loblolly pine area. Its yield, 

 however, is not commensurate with the area it occupies on account of 

 understocking. The soils are clayey, loamy, or sandy. The surface 

 of the flat lands is nearly level or slightly rolling and well drained; 

 these areas when stocked in longleaf pine were known as the flatwoods 

 or piney woods. As the moisture in the soil becomes less subject to 

 fluctuations they pass into hardwood flats and flat swamps. As they 

 become more level and less thoroughly drained, they grade into savannas, 

 pocosons, and bog swamps. As they become sandier and more thor- 

 oughly drained and drier they approach in their forest characters the 

 longleaf pine sand hills. 



TABLE 4. COMPOSITION OF LOBLOLLY PINE STAND ON LONGLEAF PINE FLAT LANDS. 



