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Title: Timber trees and forests of North Carolina
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932, joint author
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Winston, M. I. & J. C. Stewart, public printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The short-leaf pine produces some seed annually, and bears abun-dantly about once in three years. Seedlings are common on well-drained soil, occupying abandoned iields and often growing in mix-ture with the loblolly pine. The rate of growth in youth is veryrapid. On high exposed situations it is sometimes thrown by thewind. The dark green slender leaves are usually in twos, from a longsheath, and 3 to 5 inches long. The cone, smaller than that ofthe other North Carolina pines, and armed with slender short *Pinus mitis, Michaux. N. C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. BULLETIN 6. PLATE XVII.
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A GROUP OF UONG-UEAF PINES LONG-LEAF PINE. 131 spines, is rarely 2 inches lono;. It has a strong tap-root and sev-eral lateral roots. The wood varies greatly in quality and in the amount of sap-wood. It is heavy, hard, strong, and generally coarse-grained ;orange in color; the sapwood nearly white. It is much used forlumber, for which purpose it is only inferior to that of the long-leaf pine. In the middle sections near tlie railroad it has been largelyremoved. Large quantities still remain, however, in Stanly,Cabarrus, Randolph, Caswell, Davidson, Surry, Wilkes, Alexan-de,r, Iredell, Yadkin, Cleveland, Rutherford, and Caldwell coun-ties. The amount sawed in this State in 1894 probably was be-tween 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 feet, board measure, the largerpart of which w^as for local use. On account of its tendency to spring up in old iields and openwoods, and rhe excellent quality of its timber, the short-leaf pineis probably destined to assume very extensive economic importancein the

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