LOBLOLLY PINE WOODLAND. ltil 



cause the formation of clear boles. Dwarfed and defective trees 

 passed over in lumbering may be left until after a stand is secured, 

 as seed from them will materially aid in obtaining an even distri- 

 bution of the young crop ; but they should be removed as soon as 

 regeneration is assured. 



Seed for planting should be gathered in autumn, between the 

 middle of October and the early part of November, care being 

 taken to keep them dry until sown. If the weather is at all 

 moist and warm, planting should take place at once. This will 

 enable the seed to germinate and root before winter. Otherwise 

 they should be kept dry until early spring and planted not later 

 than the first of April. 



Only slight preparation of the soil is needed for planting. All 

 broad-leaf trees should be removed, and a plowing to destroy the 

 turf lessens the danger of the young pines being choked by the 

 grass. From sowings carried on at Bladenboro as experiments, it 

 would seem to take about ii-ve pounds -of seed to the acre, there 

 being about 10,000 seed to the pound. 



LOBLOLLY PINE WOODLAND 



The area in which the loblolly pine is the dominant economic 

 tree includes the greater part of the uplands north of the Tar 

 river ; most of the area lying between the Tar and Nense ri-vers, 

 except the uplands of Edgecombe, Wilson and Nash counties 

 which are occupied conjointly by the long-leaf and loblolly pines; 

 the basin of the Northeast river in Duplin and Pender counties ; 

 the uplands of Jones and Lenoir counties and a great portion of 

 the uplands of Carteret, Onslow and Brunswick counties ; much of 

 Columbus and Robeson ; the southeastern corner of Richmond ; 

 the eastern part of Anson and smaller areas in Sampson and 

 Bladen counties. 



The forests of this pine are chiefly confined to the level pine 

 woodland with loamy or stiff loamy soils as were described in the 

 growth of the long-leaf pine in the level pine woodland (p. 156). 



To the north of the Neuse river, the loblolly pine forms a pure 

 forest over the larger portion of the area, as it also does in a large 

 portion of the coastal counties of Carteret, Onslow and Pender, 

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