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Fig. 28. The rich flora of a Georgia swamp. 



and tropical parts of the South. In the tropics, sand predomi- 

 nates, while in the alluvial section, it is scarce, the red and blue 

 clay types being in the majority. There are many sections, as in 

 Alabama and Mississippi, where the soil is well supplied with 

 limestone and where sweet clover abounds. Along the 

 Mississippi River in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, 

 the swamp flora of the tropics is somewhat duplicated and 

 we find again trees largely dominating as honey plants. Just 

 back from the Mississippi River, the soil is usually of the 

 black tj'pe, and the shrubs and smaller honey plants are largely 

 in the majority, according to F. M. Morgan, J. F. Archdekin, 

 and Frank Pease of Louisiana. On the Atlantic coast of Georgia, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina and north Florida extends the 

 famous gallberry region, where this plant alone is often sufficient 

 to give an entire crop of honey. In all these lowlands, vines 



