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1907 ] Garden, Field, and Forest of the Nation. 
and geological structure than any other products of the soil. 
[ This is beautifully illustrated in our State where conifers 
predominate over the coastal plain and sand hills region, 
and the broad-leaved deciduous trees over the granitic and 
schistose rocks farther west. Within these areas species and 
varieties vary with the changes in character of the rock 
( and the change of its dip helping or hindering drainage. 
This is beautifully illustrated in the neighborhood of Chapel 
Hill, where our Triassic sandstones bear the loblolly pines, 
except where the rocks are cut by dikes, and then you may 
trace the dike by the broad-leaved trees that grow upon it. 
The crystallines of the Chapel Hill mass have their charac- 
teristic diciduous species, and these again vary as the rock 
structure changes. 
We have in the Appalachians practically the only hard wood 
forests on the continent, and many of the most valuable spe- 
cies are confined to the Southern Appalachian mountains. In 
the north these forests have been ruined by the destructive 
work of the lumberman, before the introduction of the 
methods of modern scientific forestry; but here we already 
have the forest of the nation if we will but preserve it, and 
upon its preservation depend the field and the garden. 
Our fathers had a true instinct when they pictured a great 
civilization in the South based upon the soil. Their vision 
is to be more than fulfilled when Southern agriculture can 
bring to its aid science, that sensible science of our day, 
which has for its ultimate end not merely discovery, but 
application; which is not so delighted with the formulating 
of a new law as it is overjoyed at the lifting of a burden. 
“Then the tiller of the soil will come up to his calling as 
fully equipped for service as the lawyer, the doctor, the cap- 
tain of industry; for it has come to pass that the calling in 
which the unlettered and untrained man was once supposed 
to have as good a chance as the educated one, is now the call- 
ing in which wide and varied knowledge is as imperative as 
in almost any other known among men.” 
