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restricted in their distribution to North Carolina or to the 

 region around the southern Appalachian mountains. 



The mossy cup, yellow and shingle oaks, white linden and 

 big shag-bark hickory, prominent trees of the central States, 

 extend as far to the southeast as central North Carolina; 

 while trees of the north, like hemlock, sugar or hard maple, 

 northern red oak, cherry, birch and white pine, and of the 

 northeast, like the pignut hickory, chestnut, northern pitch 

 pine and balsam enter more or less largely into the composi- 

 tion of the forests of the western parts of the State. 



Many trees of wide distribution, and among them some of 

 the most valuable, extend from this State in all directions, 

 the white, post, black, scarlet and Spanish oaks, the red and 

 white maples, the white hickory and brown heart and shag- 

 bark hickories, short-leaf pine, yellow poplar, red cedar, black 

 cherry, and black walnut. The cypress, water and willow 

 oaks, downy poplar, swamp-white oak (Q. Michauxii, Nutt.) 

 southern elm, and planer trees are trees having a great range 

 to the south and southwest. A few trees are found only in 

 this State, or extend but a short distance beyond its bound- 

 aries, the yellow-wood, the large-leafed umbrella tree, the 

 Carolina hemlock, the clammy locust, the last being entirely 

 confined to this State. 



Altogether there are 153 kinds of woody plants, which form 

 a simple upright stem and attaining arborescent proportions 

 growing naturally within the State; and of these over seventy 

 are trees of the first size, and fifty-seven are trees of great 

 economic value. Fourteen of these are known to attain in 

 this State a height of over 100 feet, three of them a height of 

 over 140 feet, sixteen of them reach in this State diameters of 

 five feet or over; and five reach diameters of seven feet or 

 over. 



The areas of the other States included in the proposed For- 

 est Reserve also contain a large variety of trees and thus this 

 region contains the greatest variety of hard woods to be 



