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certain indication of rich agricultural 
land, and when the hardwoods are cut 
the land is turned permanently to 
agricultural use. In Arkansas, Louisi¬ 
ana, and Mississippi the production of 
hardwoods is clearly at its extreme 
height, and in Missouri and Texas it 
has already begun to decline. 
The answer to the question, therefore, 
would seem to lie in the Appalachian 
Mountains. They contain the largest 
body of hardwood timber left in the 
United States. On them grow the 
greatest variety of tree species anywhere 
to be found. Protected from hre and 
reckless cutting, they produce the best 
kinds of timber, since their soil and 
climate combine to make heavy stands 
and rapid growth. Yet much of the 
Appalachian forest has been so damaged 
in the past that it will be years before 
it will again reach a high state of pro¬ 
ductiveness. Twenty billion feet of 
hardwoods would be a conservative 
estimate of the annual productive capac¬ 
ity of the 75,000,000 acres of forest lands 
in the Appalachians if they were rightly 
managed. Until they are we can ex¬ 
pect a shortage in hardwood timber. 
Circular 116, of the Forest Service, 
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HARDY PHLOX 
TN dividing and resetting clumps of per- 
ennials, or in planting the new varie¬ 
ties secured this spring, choice of loca¬ 
tion is important. It is better to have 
certain varieties like the phlox grouped 
or banked rather than scattered along 
the flower border. Hardy phlox is es¬ 
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hardy shrubbery, with the dwarf varie¬ 
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bed. Clumps of stately phlox form an 
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While the different varieties of peren¬ 
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sunny side of a stone wall, and many an 
old-time garden wall of grandmother’s 
day may be recalled that was simply one 
brilliant mass of blooming phlox during 
the greater part of the summer. Many 
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