232 WHITE OAK CLASS 



The possible botanical range of Live Oak is limited to a 

 narrow strip along the coast of the Southern States and in 

 California, the latter, however, producing a very inferior 

 grade of lumber. The large use of steel in shipbuilding has 

 greatly lessened the demand for Live Oak, and its repro- 

 duction by planting would hardly be a paying investment. 

 By reasonable care natural reproduction will be quite likely 

 to provide a sufficient supply. Its habit of branching out low 

 down renders it unsuited for saw timber except in short 

 lengths. Its crotches and crooked limbs are used as knees 

 and other like forms in boat- and ship-building. 



"White Oak Class. All the lumber produced from trees 

 named in this paragraph is commercially classed and sold 

 as White Oak : White Oak ( Quercus alba), Post Oak ( Q. 

 minor), Burr Oak (Q. macrocarpa), Overcup Oak (Q. lyr- 

 ata), Swamp White Oak ( Q. platanoides), Cow Oak ( Q. 

 michauxii), Yellow Oak ($. acuminata) and Chestnut Oak 

 Q. prinus), with several others of less note. 



Red Oak Class. Lumber cut from the following list of 

 trees is classed and sold as Red Oak : Red Oak ( Quercus 

 rubra), Pin Oak (Q. palustris), Black Oak {Q. velutina), 

 Spanish Oak (Q. pagodcefolia), Southern Red Oak (Q. 

 texana), with half a score or more of no very great im- 

 portance, and not worthy of cultivation when more valua- 

 ble ones can be grown in their stead. 



WHITE OAK : Quercus alba 



OF all the broadleaf trees of America, White Oak is the 

 most important. For some purposes there is no substitute 

 thus far known, and its rapid destruction attests the estima- 

 tion in which it is held. When standing in favorable loca- 

 tions, trees have been found over one hundred feet high, clean 

 of limb for sixty or seventy- five feet, with slightly tapering 

 body, and over five feet in diameter breast high. The area 

 of its natural range is great. Its boundary stretches from 

 Maine to northern Florida, from there to eastern Texas, 



