UTILIZATION OP BASSWOOD. 5 
SUPPLY. 
Basswood timber grows in the eastern half of the United States, 
but it is not important near the Atlantic coast south of New England 
nor in the Gulf Coast States. 
The estimated stand of basswood is given by regions in figure 1. 
The New England region contains approximately 666,000,000 board 
STAND Or BASSWOOD 
SAW-TIMBER 
REGION 
MILLIONS 
or 
BO FEET 
PERCLNT 
OF 
TOTAL 
T NEW 
X ENGLAND 
666 
7 
•n-MIDOLE 
^ATLANTIC 
674 
a 
fflLAKE 
5,082 
55 
]Y CENTRAL. 
2,134 
25 
1 T SOUTH ATLA^C 
X AND LAST GULF 
4-00 
* 
■\/r LOWER 
VI MISSISSIPPI 
56 
■ - 
TOTAL 
9,012 
100 
Fig. 1. — Estimated stand of basswood by State groups. 
feet of timber, or 7 per cent of the supply. The middle Atlantic 
region, made up of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, contains a trifle more. The Lake 
region, the most important region, contains more than one-half of 
all the basswood in the United States, or about 5,082,000,000 board 
feet. The second most important region, the central region, whose 
