316 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
woods, the soft sugar pine and the hard bull pine, Meese spruces and 
firs conar és hemlocks, ane larch form the valuable supplies. In the 
Ro fe untains no woods of commercial caiae occur, the 
arowih being mainly ats podices firs, and bull pine, with other pines 
and cedars of more or less value. e southern states contain in their 
regions. The northern states are mainl scoupled by hardwood 
Adirondacks, and here a nd there in the pineries of Mi chigan, Wis- 
consin, fe poe or in the hemlock regions of Pennsylvania 
a or 
The amount of timber standing is, roughly, 2,300,000,000,000 ft., board 
measure, while the total ann ual c ut is estimated at 40,000,000,000 It, 
w 
Prussia where reproduction is secured by skillful managem 
es products stand easily second in value to agricultural products ise 
ceeding mineral products Sy more than 50 per cent. The ann ual loss 
by fire is estimated at $25,000,000. 
