﻿FOREST MANAGEMENT OF LOBLOLLY PINE. 



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section loblolly is comparatively scarce, growing in mixture with 

 hardwoods and some scrub and pitch pine, and is not important com- 

 mercially. In the southern half of this region, however, where the 

 general elevation is less than 50 feet above sea, loblolly is the most 

 important timber tree. 



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Fig. 1.— Distribution of loblolly pine in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. 



Piedmont Types. 



In middle or Piedmont Virginia, in the portion contiguous to the 

 western edge of the Coastal Plain region, from Fredericksburg south, 

 loblolly pine occurs in the following types : 



(1) In pure pine stands (chiefly on old fields) in mixture with 

 Shortleaf and scrub pines. Shortleaf usually predominates, though 



