GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OP LOBLOLLY PINE. 



T.uiLE UI.—I!ale of yrowth of Loblolly Pine. 



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CONDITIONS OF DEVELOP:\IENT. 



The Loblolly Piiie prefers a moist, cool, sandy or light loamy soil, wbicli, it' not always moist, 

 should have a greater retentiveiiess for moisture than is required by most of the other upland 

 pines. It reaches its greatest perfection in the perpetually moist or fresh forest lands, with a soil 

 of a sandy loam, rich iu vegetable mold — the accumulation of ages — which border the swamps 

 of the coast region. The tree is not found on the porous, highly siliceous soils of the more 

 elevated uplands, where the Lougleaf Pine almost exclusively prevails; it also avoids heavy clay 

 and calcareous soils of the uplands and the alluvial lauds. 



The Loblolly Pine is a tree of austral regions confined to the humid belt of the Austroripariau 

 or Louisiana zone and the lower border of the Carolinian life zone, which, on the Atlantic Coast, 



