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AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



has not been found outside of Georgia. It grows in the central part of the state on 

 Stone mountain and on a few other granite hills. Whether the species originated 

 there and was never able to work its way down to the more congenial valleys below, or 

 whether it once grew lower down and was crowded to its last retreat by other species, 

 is not known. But an interest attaches to it from the very fact that its range is so 

 restricted and that its habitat is on the sterile summits. Lumbermen care nothing 

 about this tree. Few of them ever saw it or heard of it. The trunk is small, the 

 acorns only from one-third to half an inch long, and the leaves are of a form midway 

 between those of pin oak and turkey oak. The characters of the wood have not been 

 reported, but since there is not enough of it to have any commercial value, the matter 

 is not very important. 



