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OF VIRGINIA 



TABLE 2. SUMMARY, STATE GROWN AND IMPORTED WOODS. 



A brief account of somie of the woods manufactured into com- 

 modities in Virginia in the order of the quantity used follows : 



LOBLOLLY 



More loblolly was reported than the combined amounts of any 

 other five species listed ; nearly two-thirds of it was cut in Virginia. 

 This tree grows as far north as Delaware and from there southward 

 it appears in all the Atlantic and Gulf Coast States. In southern and 

 southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina the original growth of 

 loblolly reaches its maximum development in belts of pure stands. Out- 

 side of these belts it is mixed more or less with shortleaf pine. The ex- 

 tent of the loblolly range in Virginia is within sixty miles of the coast. 

 Original growths have in a great measure disappeared, and the second 



