RATE OF GROWTH OF SHORTLEAF PINE. 

 TABLE IV. Bate of growth of Shortleaf I'int: 



107 



HEIGHT 

 IN FEET. 



-*-- 145-4 16.0 r" l6.5---f--l7.0--->; 



DIAMETERS 

 IN INCHES. 



Flo. 11. ( Jrnwtli of Sbortleaf Pine: Height, diameter, and c-nhic rnn tents of average trees at 10, 20, etc., years of age. 



CONDITIONS OF DEVELOPMENT. 



mid climate. The Shortleaf Piue prefers a well-drained, light sandy or gravelly clay soil 

 or warm loam, even if deficient in the elements of plant food. Soils of this character which are 

 found widely prevailing over the undulating or broken uplands, if only of sufficient depth, will 

 produce this tree in greatest perfection. It avoids the strongly calcareous and the rich alluvial 

 .soils, as well as purely silicions, being dependent on the presence of a certain amount of clay by 

 which the mechanical condition of the soil is improved, rendering it more compact and more 



