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Its investments, as it ass-uredly will bo, 

 the da.v is not far disianc whon tlio pro- 

 duction will be immeasurably inereaued, 

 tlie price for home consumption gieatly 

 reduced, .ind an export trade (>ftablished 

 which will supply the whole of the west- 

 ern territory of the United States, from 

 the Mississippi to the I'aciHc coast, at 

 reduced prices. Not only to the capitalist 

 is the flelrt open, but to the ^.killed oyster 

 cultnriGt of Chesaneake and Delaware 

 bays, Looe Island sound and the shores 

 of Connecticut, the sl.Ue offers cheap 



oyster lands for sale or to rent, and a f r< o 

 supply of seed. To all such, with a mini- 

 mum of capital and skilled industry and 

 energy, she opens her arms to welconu' 

 thcan to a home on the verge of her 

 "smnmer sea," beneath skies which is 

 hardly known what winter is, and to 

 cheer them on to fortune and her cwn in- 

 dustrial development. This Is no fair- 

 seeming false promise, but one tenilered in 

 all si/tcerity, and based on facts -^hich 

 the writer has been careful to understate 

 rather than to overestimate. 



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The following are a partial list of the 

 more important trees and shubs of the 

 btate: 



Oaks— Quercus alba, white oak; quercus 

 aquatica, water oa!i; quercus catisbaei, 

 turkey oak; quercus cinlrea, sand jack 

 oak; queFcus falcata, Spanish oak; quer- 

 cus lyrata, overcup oak; quercus mi- 

 ohauxii, cow oak; quercus nigra, black- 

 jack oak; quercus obtusiloba, post oak; 

 quercus palustris, pin oali; quercus 

 phellos, wfllow oak; quercus punus,, 

 swamp chestnut oak, quercus tinctoria, 

 blaok chestnut oak; quercus virens, live 

 oak. 



Hickories— Carya alba, scaly-bark hick- 

 ory; carya amara, swamp hickory; carya 

 aqualica, water hickory: ca-rya porcina. 

 pignut hickory; ca^ya toinent.osa, black 

 iiicliory; carya olivaeformis, pecan. 



Asli— Fraximus Americana, white ash; 

 frasimus platycarpa, water ash; fraximus 

 veredi-s, green ash. 



Elms— Ulmus alata, wahoo or winged 

 olm; tilrau fulva, slippery elm; ulmus 

 Americana, white elm. 



Gums— >'y3sa syloatica, black gum; 

 nyssa nniiiora, tupelo gum; liquidambar 

 styraciftua, sweet gum. 



Magnnlii— Glauca. sweet bay; grandi- 

 flora, mngnolia macrophylla, cucumber 

 tree. 



I'iues— Mites, short-leaf pine; palustu^, 

 long-leaf pine; tae<la, loblolly, or old lielU 

 pine. 



Afaples— Acci bactatum, hard maple; 

 acci rubicum. red maple; acci sacchar- 

 iuntn. sugar maple. 



I'rcniis— Americana. American plum; 

 august ifolip, Chickasaw plum; serolina, 

 wild cherry. 



Hucheye— Aescubis indet, buckeye; aes- 

 cu:us paria. red buckeye. 



M.tr.'ihmaHow— Uibiccns incanus, marsh- 

 mallow; hibiscus moschentos, marshmal- 

 low. 



Sumach— Rhus glabia, sumach; rhus 

 copallina. sumach. 



Haw— Vibunum. medium haw; vibunum, 

 pinnifolonm, black haw; vibunum scabrel- 

 ium, haw. 



Other trees — Ostuja Virginicn, iron- 

 wood; cornus floida, dogwood; sassafras 

 officinale, sassafras; diospyras Virgini- 

 ana, persimmon; asimiara parviflora. I'a- 

 paw; gleditschia triacauthes, honey lo- 

 cust; gleditschia monosperma, water lo- 

 cust; hamamelis Virginica, witch hazel; 

 oxydendrti-m arboreuni, sour wood; myri- 

 ca cerifera. wax mvrtlo: alnus serrulata, 

 alder; cast-anea pumila, chin(iuepin; ju- 

 niperus Viririniaua. red cedar; fagus fer- 

 ruginea, b«ech; tilia Americana, linden 

 troes carpinus Americana, hornbeam; ilex 

 opaca, holly; enonymus Amerieanus, burn- 

 ing bush; lenodendron tulinifera. tulip, or 

 poplar; Crataegus apiifolia, hawthorn; 

 sambucus Canadensis, alder; chronauthus 

 Virginica, fringe tree; morus rubia, mul- 

 beri;y; maclura aurantiaca, Osage orange; 

 betula rubra, red bircli; populus hele- 



rophylla, cotton wooil; salyx , willow 



(many species); catalpa bignoides, catalpa; 

 platarius occidentales, sycamore; ne- 

 gundo aceroides, box alder; celtis occi- 

 dentales, hackberry; taxodium distichum, 

 cypress; juglaus ilgra, black walnut; 

 xanthoxylum clava, prickly ash. 



When the areas devoted to the above 

 trees are known, some idea of the quan- 

 tity of timber existing in Louisiana wMl 

 be formed. Of the entire forest wealth of 

 the United States over 60 per cent is 

 situated in the south, and of this amount 

 Louisiana possesses the lion's share. In 

 fact, it may be said that 75 per cent of 

 this wonderful forest wealth is lying along 

 the tributaries of the Mississippi river or 

 gulf of Mexico, and is readilv accessible 

 to the wharves of New Orleans and Baton 

 Rouge. Millions of dollars have been re- 

 cently invested in these timlver resources, 

 and the saw mills and planing machines 

 of the north, like the cotton factories, are 

 gradually moving south for large profits. 

 The great»est timber wealth of this state 

 is in its immense areas of long and short- 

 leaf piue and its unparalleled forests of 

 cypress. While other southern states 

 share with us the claims for superioi'ity, 

 in both quality and quantity of the for- 

 mer, of tlie latter we stand without a 

 rival, in both the Immense quantity avail- 



