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I. Group of loblolly pines 200 years old growing with hardwoods 

 . on Quality I. Such trees yield 55 per cent of No. 1 and No. 

 2 grades of lumber. The hardwoods have been cut out. 



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II. Branchlet of loblolly or North Carolina pine with old cones 

 open after the dispersal of seed in early winter, and small 

 cones which will develop next season just below the termi- 

 nal bud. Two-fifths natural size. (Author's illustration.) 2 



III. Stand of loblolly pine about 12 years old on dry sandy soil in 



old field. Stand is too open. The stems consequently are 

 short and crooked, set with many branches, and the wood 

 is knotty. An undesirable condition due to open stocking 

 on dry soil. (Photo. U. S. Forest Service.) .............. 18 



IV. Dense stand of pure loblolly pine, 5 to 8 years old. Desirable 

 . ' condition insuring long straight stems which are well 



cleaned of branches. (Author's illustration.) ............ 20 



V. A. Characteristic stand of loblolly and pocoson pine on sa- 

 vanna. The scattered short-bodied trees are typical. 

 Such a stand yields about 15 per cent of No. 1 and No. 2 

 grades of lumber. (Photo. U. S. Forest Service.) ....... 22 



B. Margin of pine, cypress and gum swamp. Old cypress in 



center; old pine on left. (Photo. U. S. Forest Service.) 



VI. A. Groups of loblolly pine poles with old longleaf pine which 



it is replacing on grassy flat lands. (Photo. U. S. Forest 



Service.) ............................................ 24 



B. Cut-over loblolly pine land showing the undesirable char- 

 acter of the seed trees which are left by the present 

 method of cutting. (Photo, by J. S. Holmes.) 



VII. Loblolly pine with mixed oaks and shortleaf pine. Three log 

 tree 80 years old cutting 20 per cent of No. 1 and No. 2 

 grades of lumber. (Photo. N. C. Geological Survey.) ..... 26 



VIII. A. Good example of heavy culling as practiced 15 to 20 years 

 ago. The large number of intermediate and suppressed 

 trees which were left have now formed a basis for a re- 

 munerative second cutting. Pine reestablishment fair 

 but intermixed with oaks. (Author's illustration.) ..... 44 



B. and C. Types of recently cut loblolly pine forest, 5 or 6 

 years after cutting; quality II, age about 70 years. Dense 

 pine restocking, young stand being from 6 to 10 feet 

 high. Undesirable class of seed trees and no possibility 

 of a remunerative second cutting. (Author's illustra- 

 tions.) ............ 44 



