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Merchantable timber of Table mountain pine division 211 



Improvement of the forests 212 



Short-leaf and pitch pine forests 213 



Condition of the pine forests 214 



Improvement of the forests 215 



White pine forests 215 



Condition of the white pine forests... 216 



Merchantable timber of white pine forests 218 



Improvement of the white pine forests 218 



Forests of the higher mountains 219 



Soils of the higher mountains 220 



Forest trees of the higher mountains ; 220 



Condition of the forests 221 



Merchantable timber of the higher mountains 222 



Forest industries of the mountain regions 222 



Forests of the mountain summits.... 223 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATE I. Forest view looking towards Grandfather mountain. 

 Frontispiece. 



II. Liriodendron tulipifera ; yellow poplar 39 



III. Tilia heterophylla; lin 45 



IV. Acer barbatum ; sugar maple 50 



V. Prunus serotina ; group of wild black cherry trees 59 



VI. Fraxinus americana ; white ash 71 



VII. Quercus alba; white oak 89 



VIII. Quercus virginiana ; live oak.... 96 



IX. Quercus rubra;redoak 97 



X. Quercus nigra ; water oak 105 



XI. Castanea dentata ; chestnut 109 



XII. Betula lenta ; cherry birch 116 



XIII. Juniperus virginiana ; red cedar 121 



XIV. Firms strobus ; white pine 124 



XV. Pinus tgeda; loblolly pine -125 



XVI. Pinus serotina ; pond pine 127 



XVII. Pinus palustris; long-leaf pine -. 131 



XVIII. Picea nigra; black spruce ,.133 



XIX. Tsuga canadensis ; hemlock 134 



XX. Sabal palmetto ; palmetto -. 137 



XXI. Dredge cutting logging canal in eastern cypress 



swamp 173 



XXII. Mixed hardwood and piue forest of Piedmont plateau 



region 192 



XXIII. Mixed hardwood forest of mountain region 221 



