36 WORKING PLAN, FOREST LANDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 
lands. It grows on poor soils and on excessively moist soil, but 
avoids swamps. 
Full crops of cones are so characteristic of the Pond Pine as to be a 
means of distinguishing this species from the Loblolly Pine, which it 
POND PINE. 
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500 

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300 


200 

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DIAMETER BREASTHIGH—INCHES. 
DIAGRAM 8.—Total merchantable yolume and yolume of merchantable heartwood and sap- 
wood, in board feet by the Two-thirds Rule, on a basis of diameter breasthigh. 
closely resembles; but the cones are persistent, and very commonly 
remain on the tree for several seasons without opening, so that it does 
not seed so abundantly as the Cuban and Loblolly pines. 





