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RED BAY. 
their umbrella shaped united tops are very beautiful, and the spray divested 
of its summer garb will always be admired by those who have studied the 
subject. 
Soil, propagation, Spc. Any free soil, rather moist than dry, will suit 
this species. The seeds should be placed in a rot-heap, as they remain a 
year and sometimes two or three, before they come up. It is also propaga- 
ted by cuttings of the root, or by suckers. 
See NuttalPs Supplement, Vol. l,p. 88.] 
RED BAY. 
Laurus caroliniensis. L. foliis perennantibus, ovoto-acuminatis, subtùs sub- 
glaucis, baccis cœruleis. 
This species of Laurel is first observed in the lower part of Virginia, 
and it continues to be seen uninterruptedly throughout the maritime dis- 
tricts of the Carolinas and of Georgia, in the two Floridas, and in Lower 
Louisiana. It is confined, as well as several other trees which I have 
described, precisely within the limits which I have assigned to the pine- 
barrens. 
This tree is known only by the name of Red Bay. It is profusely mul- 
tiplied, and, wdth the Sweet Bay, Tupelo, Red-flowering Maple, Water 
Oak, etc., it fills the branch-swamps which intersect the pine-barrens. It 
is seen on the skirts of the great swamps which border the rivers, and 
around the ponds covered with the Laurus aestivalis, Pond-bush, that are 
met with in the barrens. A cool and humid soil appears to be essential 
to its growth for it is never found in dry or sandy lands. It is also remarked 
that the further south it grows the more vigorous and beautiful is its vege- 
tation : thus in the southern part of Georgia and in the Floridas, it is often 
60 or 70 feet high and from 15 to 20 inches in diameter : dimensions 
which it more rarely attains in the Carolinas. Perhaps, also, .as the 
Carolinas have been longer inhabited and are more fully peopled, the largest 
stocks have been felled for certain uses to which they are found perfectly 
adapted. 
Where the Red Bay arrives at a lofty stature, it rarely exhibits a regular 
