162 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



Alabama material, for it does not grow wild within 200 miles of 

 Memphis ), and furniture at New Orleans. It was being used in 

 the basket factories at Evergreen and Flomaton as long ago as 

 1905. Recently it has been used more extensively for such prosaic 

 articles as crates, made by the veneer process ; and last year 

 (1927) a veneer manufacturer in Montgomery was advertising for 

 magnolia logs, IS inches and over in diameter, and 1-1 feet long. 



The leafy twigs are shipped from Evergreen and ]^erhaps 

 elsewhere for winter decorations, and thousands of the flowers 

 are picked every year (largely from cultivated trees, however) 

 for temporary ornamental purposes, but they turn brown and fall 

 to pieces in two or three days. vSingle leaves can be used for 

 wreaths and other decorations, and they keep their shape and color 

 a long time. 



In its nati\'e haunts the magnolia is strictly confined to the 

 coastal plain.* It grows in hammocks, bottoms, ravines, and on 

 bluffs, all of which are pretty well protected from fire. It is so 

 conspicuous, especially in winter, that its range is known pretty 

 accurately, and is not likely to be extended much by future explora- 

 tions. 



6A. Creek bottoms about six miles east of Wetumpka, Elmore County. 

 Near Shorter's, Macon County. 



6C. Woods near AutaUga and Pine Creeks, from Prattville a few 

 miles southeastward. 



7. Montgomery, Macon and Bullock Counties. Dallas County (Cocks). 

 Apparently rare or wanting farther west in the black belt, perhaps because 

 the summers are too dry or the soil too rich. 



8. Frequent throughout, except in the western portions. 



9. Sumter and Wilcox Counties. 



lOE. low. Common; making perhaps two or three percent of the 

 present forest. 



11. \'ery common. 



12. 13. Common in hammncks. 



15. Near Fairhoiie, Baldwin Countv. 



*There are some specimens a few feet tall in dry woods near Cullman, 

 believed to have come from seeds from cultivated trees near by, dropped 

 by birds ; but it does not seem to have been previously recorded as escaping 

 from cultivation. 



