General Instructions for Artificial Reforest- 
ation of Southern Pine 
SPECIES TO PLANT 
Species to plant will depend upon your location. Longleaf 
and Slash Pines grow naturally in the Coastal Plains, Lower 
Mississippi Valley and Southern Texas, and should be plant- 
ed there, Slash being the preferred specie as on most sites it 
will make a quicker growth and will produce naval stores or 
merchantable lumber much faster. On very dry, sandy sites 
Longleaf can be used to good advantage. 
Slash is by far the fastest growing and the most generally 
planted Southern Pine and is planted in the lower Piedmont, 
and even in the upper Piedmont and north of its range in © 
the Mississippi Valley and Texas and seems to thrive as well 
as in the coastal sections. However, in the upper Piedmont 
and mountain sections and in the northern part of the south- 
ern pine belt Loblolly and Shortleaf should generally be us- 
ed, Shortleaf being planted in the mountains and extreme 
northern part of the belt. 
TIME OF PLANTING 
Pine seed should generally be planted in the Spring 
months (late February, March or April) depending on the 
location. The important point is to get the seed in the 
ground at a time when they will germinate quickly. In gen- 
eral, the earlier the seeds are planted jthe better, so they can 
be well established before the extremes of summer weather 
start, and ,so they will have more time to grow a good root 
system for transplanting the following Spring. 
METHODS OF PLANTING 
Two different methods may be employed to get an arti- 
_ ficial stand of seedlings on a desired site. They are: (a) 
Plant seed in a nursery bed and transplant to a desired site; 
