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larilv to the south of the Neuse river, on wliich the two trees 

 occur side by side forming about equal proportions of the woods, 

 but in such places the loblolly pine is in process of supplanting 

 the long leaf pine, and puch woodland will be considered from a 

 sylvicultural point of view, as being more suitable for the growth 

 and develojiment of the loi)lolly than the long-leaf pine. The 

 commercial timbers of each kind now on these lands will, how- 

 ever, be considered. 



LONG-LEAF PINE WOODLAND. 



The area on which the long-leaf pine is the dominant tree, or 

 where it yet exists side by side with tiie loblolly pine, extends 

 from near Bogue sound in Carteret <;oanty, southward along the 

 great sand bank lying between the sounds and the swamps ; from 

 the burders of the Dover swamp noi'thward to Enfield in Halifax 

 county, and Nashville (within the transitional division) westward 

 to Cary (in Wake county), Sanford (in Moore county), and the east- 

 ern edge of Montgomery county, and the southeastern corner of 

 Anson county. To the northeastward of Lliis area, wherever the 

 soil was suitable, the long-leaf pine has been replaced by the lob- 

 lolly ; but on limited areas of sandy soils, occasional specimens of 

 the former species yet stand, unsurrounded by other large forest 

 trees, but showing that its fellows once tenanted the entire soil. 

 Such- areas will be fully described in considering the pine barrens. 



Along the great sand hills just within the sounds, the long-leaf 

 pine occurs in open forests of small trees, now largely removed ; 

 further inland, on the praries and hillocks in the swamps and the 

 wet-soiled downs of the coast of Brunswick county, clumps of 

 larger trees grow at intervals; on the loams in the basins of the 

 Black and Northeast Cape Fear rivers; and on similiar soils in 

 Colunibus, Bladen, and Robeson counties, the long-leaf and lob- 

 lolly pines are found together; while northward to northern 

 Wayne, and westward to Wake and Anson connties, it forms, 

 where unlambered or not destroyed, a nearly pure growth of 

 medium sized trees. 



Leaving out of consideration the few trees disseminated through 



