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Merchantable timber ot Table mountain pine division 211 



Improvement of the forests 212 



Short-leaf and pitch pine forests 218 



Condition of the pine forests 214 



Improvement of the forests 215 



White pine forests 215 



Condition of the Avhite pine forests 216 



Merchantable timber of white pine forests 218 



Improvement of the white pine forests 218 



Forests of the higher mountains 219 



Soils of the higher mountains 220 



Forest trees of the higher mountains 220 



Condition of the forests 221 



Merchantable timber of the higher mountains 222 



Forest industries of the mountain regions 222 



Forests of the mountain summits 223 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate I. Forest view looking towards Grrandfather mountain. 

 Frontispiece. 



II. Liriodendron tulipifera ; yellow poplar 89 



III. Tilia heterophylla; lin 45 



IV. Acer barbatum ; sugar maple 50 



V. Prunus serotina ; group of wild black cherry trees 59 



VI. Fraxiiius americana; white ash 71 



VII. Quercus alba; white oak 89 



VIII. Quercus virginiana; live oak 96 



IX. Quercus rubra; red oak 97 



X. Quercus nigra; water oak 105 



XI. Castanea dentata; chestnut 109 



XII. Betula lenta ; cherry birch 116 



XIII. Juniperus virginiana ; red cedar 121 



XIV. Pinus strobus ; white pine 124 



XV. Pinus tfeda; loblolly pine 125 



XVI. Pinus serotina; [jond pine 127 



XVII. Pinus palustris; long-leaf pine 131 



XVIII. Picea nigra; black spruce 138 



XIX. Tsuga canadensis; hemlock 134 



XX. Sabal palmetto ; palmetto 137 



XXI. Dredge cutting logging CH,nal in eastern cypress 



swamp 178 



XXII. Mixed hardwood and pine forest of IMedmont plateau 



region 192 



XXIII. Mixed hardwood forest of mountain region 221 



