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BULLETIN 1485, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
SPECIES INVESTIGATED 
The species tested are listed in Table 5, together with their botanical 
names and the locality where the material obtained was grown. 
Table 5. — Species tested, and locality of growth 
Common name 
Botanical name 
Where grown 
Softwoods: 
Black spruce . 
Wisconsin. 
Colorado. 
Idaho. 
Iowa. 
Tennessee. 
Oregon. 
Wisconsin. 
Colorado. 
Do. 
California. 
Wisconsin. 
Do. 
Virginia and South Carolina. 
Montana. 
Louisiana. 
California. 
Wisconsin. 
Tennessee. 
South Carolina. 
Florida. 
Iowa. 
Maryland and Tennessee. 
Louisiana. 
Florida. 
Oregon. 
Argentina. 
Montana. 
Wisconsin. 
AVashington. 
Oregon. 
California. 
Washington. 
California and Oregon. 
Oregon. 
Georgia. 
Wisconsin. 
Washington. 
Wisconsin. 
Montana. 
California. 
Oregon. 
North Carolina, 
Arkansas. 
Washington. 
Missouri. 
California. 
Wisconsin. 
Montana. 
Wisconsin. 
Minnesota. 
Wisconsin. 
West Virginia. 
Wisconsin. 
Missouri. 
Ohio. 
Washington. 
Canal Zone. 
Wisconsin. 
South Carolina. 
Michigan. 
New Hampshire. 
Wisconsin. 
Pennsylvania. 
South Carolina and Tennessee. 
Louisiana and Florida. 
Tennessee and South Carolina. 
West Virginia. 
Florida. 
Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Tennessee. 
Florida. 
Blue spruce. 
Engelmann spruce 
Norwav spruce 
Picea abies 
Red spruce. . .. . . . 
Picea rubra.. .. 
Sitka spruce. . . .... 
Picea sitchensis 
White spruce 
Picea glauca. 
Limber pine 
Pinus flexilis 
Pin on. 
Pinus edulis. 
Sugar pine 
Pinus lambertiana ___ 
Pinus strobus. . 
Northern white pine 
Jack pine... 
Pinus banks ana .. . 
Loblolly pine 
Pinus taeda _ 
Lodgepole pine 
Pinus contorta 
Pinus palustris . . _ 
Long-leaf pine . 
Monterey pine 
Pinus radiata ... 
Norway pine 
Pinus resinosa.. . _. 
Pitch pine . 
Pinus rigida 
Pond pine.. 
Pinus rigida serotina 
Pinus clausa . . 
Sand pine... 
Scotch pine.. 
Pinus svlvestris. 
Virginia pine . . 
Pinus virginiana.. . 
Short-leaf pine 
Pinus echinata 
Slash pine . . . 
Pinus caribaea 
Western yellow pi ae 
Pinus ponderosa... 
Pehuen (Monkey-puzzle) 
Araucaria aurocana . 
Alpine fir 
Abies lasiocarpa. 
Balsam fir 
Abies balsamea . 
Lowland white fir 
Abies grandis 
Abies nobilis. _ 
Noble fir 
Red fir. 
Abies magnifica. 
Silver fir. 
Abies amabilis ._ 
White fir.. 
Abies concolor 
Douglas fir. 
Pseudotsuga taxifolia 
Tsuga caroliniana ... . 
Carolina hemlock 
Eastern hemlock 
Tsuga canadensis . .. 
Western hemlock 
Tsuga heterophylla . 
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Tamarack . 
Larix laricina 
Western larch. 
Larix: occidentalis. _. . . 
Libocedrus decurrens 
Port Orford cedar .. 
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 
Chamaecyparis thyoides 
Juniperus virginiana 
Southern white cedar ... . . 
Eastern red cedar. 
Western red cedar 
Thuja plica t a 
Southern cypress. 
Taxodium distichum ... 
Redwood. 
Sequoia sempervirens.. 
Hardwoods (diffuse-porous): 
Aspen. . 
Populus tremuloides .. 
Balsam poplar 
Populus balsamifera .. . 
Eastern Cottonwood 
Populus deltoides ■ 
Norway poplar 
Populus canadensis eugenei... 
Populus grandidentata 
Liriodendron tulipifera 
Tilia glabra 
Large-tooth aspen ... 
Yellow poplar 
Basswood. 
Black willow 
Salix nigra 
Sandbar willow 
Salix longifolia 
Red alder... 
Alnus rubra.. 
Balsa 
Box elder 
Red maple 
Acer rubrum... 
Sugar maple . 
Paper birch. ... . 
Betula papyrifera- . . 
Yellow birch 
Betula lutea. . 
Beech.. . __ 
Fagus grandifolia. . 
Black gum 
Tupelo gum 
Nyssa aquatica .. 
Red gum... .. . ... . ■ 
Liquidambar styraciflua 
Sweet bay . 
Magnolia virginiana australis. 
Platanus occidentalis. ._ . . 
Sycamore . . .. .. 
Butternut 
Ohio buckeye 
Aesculus glabra ... 
Mangrove 
Rhizophor a mangle 
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