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FIG. 15. Loblolly Pine Forest and Loblolly Sleepers. 



quantity of sap, and, as a rule, it comes in shorter lengths 

 and greater scantling, often 16 or 17 inches a side. It is a 

 quick-growing tree, and in forty years has attained a height 

 of 80 ft. and 16 inches diameter. It is the first pine to 



