236 TREES 



other trees, if only allowed to do so. Much of the de- 

 forested territory, let alone, will cover itself with a ripe 

 crop of shortleaf pine lumber in a hundred years. 



The Cuban Pine 

 P. Caribaea, Morelet 



The Cuban pine stands third in the triumvirate of lum- 

 ber pines of the South. This is the "swamp pine" or 

 "slash pine," found in the coast regions from South Caro- 

 lina throughout Florida, and along the Gulf Coast to the 

 Pearl River in Louisiana. It is a beautiful pine — tall, 

 with dense crown of dark green leaves, in twos and threes, 

 eight to twelve inches long, falling at the end of their 

 second season, before they lose their brightness. A large 

 part of the turpentine of commerce has been derived from 

 these coast forests, as well as lumber, which takes its 

 place in the Northern market with the longleaf and the 

 shortleaf. 



Natural reforestation has taken place in the Southeast, 

 and a large part of the turpentine exported by Georgia and 

 South Carolina to-day, is from second-growth Cuban pine, 

 on land from which the lumber companies have stripped 

 the virgin growth. 



The Loblolly Pine 



P. Taeda, Linn. 



The loblolly or old field pine chooses land generally sterile 

 and otherwise worthless. It grows in swamps along the 

 Atlantic coast, from New Jersey through the CaroHnas, 

 and follows the Gulf from Tampa Bay into Texas. In- 

 land, it is found from the Carolinas to Arkansas and 



