Identifier: timbertreesfores01pinc (find matches)
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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irst four or five years trees in the open growvery rapidly u.itil about 15 years old, particularly in height, afterwhich time the growth is slow. When the long-leaf pine is cutor burned, and prevented from reproducing itself on account offires and swine, the loblolly pine often follows on damp soils, andscrub oak or fork-leaved black-jack oak on high dry sandy lands. The timber loss by fire on long-leaf pine lands in 1893 amountedto not less than $100,000. At rare intervals extensive tracts aredestroyed by bark beetles. Scattered trees are injured in locali-ties where the dead tops have been left in the woods after lum-bering. Beetles attack trees which have been injured by turpen-tine operations, which often so weaken them that many are thrownby the wind. In 1893 the losses, principally through this cause,amounted to between ten and fifteen million feet, board measure. The leaves are 10 to 15 inches long, in threes from long sheaths, N. C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. fettLLBTlNS. PLATE XVttt.
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BLACK SPRUCE BLACK SPRUCE. HE BALSAM. LASH HORN. TAMARAC. 133 and clustered on the ends of the thick scaly branchlets. Tiieyremain on healthy trees about 3 years, but on boxed trees onlyabout two. The sterile flowers are rose colored, appearing aboutthe first of April, and the large silky winter-buds are white. Thecones are light brown, cylindrical or conical-oblong, 6 to 10inches long, and have thick scales armed w4th a stout blunt spine.A tap-root is developed in early life and is often forked. Theroot system of old trees tends to be heart-shaped with the lateralroots penetrating deeply. The wood is heavy, hard, strong, tough, coarse-grained, anddurable; light red or orange in color; the thin sapwood nearlywhite. It is widely used for construction of all kinds, interiorfinish, fencing, railroad ties, etc. Turpentine, tar, pitch, rosin,and spirits of turpentine are obtained alnjost exclusively fromthis species. The largest bodies of standing long-leaf pine are in Moore,Montgomery, Cu

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