UTILIZATION OF DOGWOOD AND PERSIMMON 7 
variety in Dade County, Fla. For commercial purposes a considera- 
tion of the varieties is not essential. 
The chief commercial occurrence of persimmon is in the Piedmont 
and Coastal Plain regions from Virginia to Texas and in the lower 
Mississippi Valley lowlands. In mature or primeval forests it 
Fig. 5. — A fine specimen of persimmon tree 6 feet in circumference, Knox County, Ind. 
occurs singly and widely scattered, for when crowded and shaded 
by larger species it can not survive as well as dogwood. 
Although persimmon and dogwood are often found together, as, 
for example, in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and Indiana, 
persimmon is a lowland or river bottom tree. It does not grow so 
well as dogwood in the Appalachian Mountain region, nor was it 
ever as abundant in the highlands of western Xorth Carolina or 
South Carolina, or in the mountains of Tennessee, Kentucky, and 
