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rior finish, boat building, shingles, pumps, and woodenware. A 

 tonic and stimulant is made from the inner bark of the root. 



Large quantities of poplar have been sawed in the last few 

 years in eastern North Carolina and used in the manufacture of 

 crates, trucking boxes, etc., but there is still a great deal of tim- 

 ber standing in the counties north of the Neuse river. The mer- 

 chantable poplar has been cut for the most part in the midland 

 counties. It has been estimated that about 500,000,000 feet of 

 merchantable yellow poplar is standing in the mountains of west- 

 ern North Carolina. This is principally in Ashe, Alleghany, 

 Watauga, Mitchell, Yancey, Haywood, Transylvania, Swain, Gra- 

 ham, and Macon counties. A'sheville. is the chief seat of the 

 manufacture of poplar lumber ; a s^reat deal is manufactured also 

 at Dillsboro, Magnetic City, and Cranberry. Between 12,000,000 

 and 13,000,000 feet of poplar was sawed for shipment during 1892 

 in the counties west of the Blue Kidge, and half as much more for 

 local use. 



Asimina triloba, Dunal. 



(PAPAW.) 



A shrub or low tree, with slender spreading branches and dark 

 brown bark marked with large ash-colored blotches, sometimes 

 reaching a height of 40 and a diameter of 1 foot. 



It occurs from western New York and the northern shores of 

 Lake Ontario, southward to central and eastern Pennsylvania, 

 westward to southern Michigan, southern Indiana and eastern 

 Kansas, and south to middle Florida and eastern Texas. It is 

 comparatively rare toward the Atlantic seaboard, but very com- 

 mon in the Mississippi valley, reaching its best development along 

 the tributaries of the lower Ohio river and the streams of central 

 and southern Arkansas, where it grows in deep rich and rather 

 moist soil, sometimes to the exclusion of other trees. 



In North Carolina it occurs in all parts of the State, and is most 

 abundant in the northeastern and middle sections on somewhat 

 swampy or alluvial lands, where it reaches an average height of 

 from 10 to 15. feet. It is rare in the sand barrens of the south- 



