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of the garden opens up wonders of Ijeauty and quaintness 

 undreamt of by the uninitiated. Nowhere do we find quainter 

 and more striking music than in Ireland and nowhere do we 

 find a greater love for and higher development of music, art, 

 and literature than in the old Celtic dominions, i. e., France, 

 Spain, Italy and perhaps southern Germany. In the United 

 States of America the descendants of the "Celts" are with us 

 in large numbers and their great heritage should neither be 

 neglected nor forgotten. 



SOME RECENT EXTENSIONS OF THE KNOWN RANGE 

 OF PINUS PALUSTRIS 



Roland M. Harper 



The long-leaf pine, Piniis palustris Mill., is such an abundant, 

 conspicuous and unmistakable tree that its natural distribution 

 was long ago mapped with reasonable accuracy, and no note- 

 worthy additions to its recorded range seem to have been made 

 since about 1880, when it was found in the mountains of Georgia 

 and Alabama by Dr. Charles Mohr and others.* Its distribution 

 as known 25 or 30 years ago is shown on Plate 3 of Mohr's 

 Timber Pines of the Southern United States, f and that repre- 

 sents pretty well our knowledge today, except that it extends 

 down the east coast of Florida to about latitude 28°, and east- 

 ward in Middle Georgia to within a few miles of Atlanta, and 

 probably does not come as close to Vicksburg, Miss., as is 

 indicated by the map.t 



A large outlying colony of this pine in the northern part of 

 Walker County, Alabama, has been known for some years, § 

 and in the spring of 1922 I was informed by Mr. B. M. Luf- 



* See Torreya 5: 55. April 1905. 



t U. S. Forestry Bull. 13. 1896. (Revised 1897.) Asiar as Pinus palustris 

 is concerned this supersedes Dr. Mohr's forest maps of Alabama and Missis- 

 sippi in the 9th volume of the Tenth Census, which are not very accurate. 



t A map on page 3 of W. R. Mattoon's bulletin on long-leaf pine (U. S. 

 Dept. Agric. Bull. 1061; dated July 29, 1922, but apparently not published 

 until a few months later) represents it as extending over nearly all of Florida, 

 Alabama and Louisiana and more than half of Mississippi, but that is an 

 unwaranted exaggeration. 



§ See Geol. Surv. Ala. Monog. 8: 54, 141. 1913. I have not visited that 

 place since 1906, but a railroad has been built to it since, and doubtless much 

 of the timber cut out. 



