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uable hardwoods attain their greatest development, reaching their largest size in eastern America in this State. There is still much walnut and cherry, especially in the extreme southwestern counties of the State. There are walnut trees still standing which have a diameter of five to six feet and a trunk of fifty to sixty feet. Cherries, with a diameter of four or five feet, are not uncommon. The tulip, or poplar, reaches a diameter of eleven feet and a height of one hundred and fifty feet; the chestnut a diameter of seven feet, and other deciduous trees attain proportionately large sizes on the cool, moist slopes of the mountains and in mountain coves and valleys.

"Scattered in belts immediately adjacent to the Blue Ridge are bodies of excellent white pine.

W. Wlogical Survey contributed a résumé The lumber from this pine is the same grade as

of the forest growth of North Caro-No 2' in the Albany market.

lina in The Southern States for May, 1893, from which we clip the following:

"The forests, so far as their distribution is concerned, extend from the very seacoast to the highest mountain, and embrace in abundance a series of the most valuable American trees. Naturally the forests fall in three divisions, more or less clearly marked.

"In the long-leaf pine belt, the western limit of which extends from the bend the State makes to the southeast near Anson county, northeast to Northampton county, are found four very valuable trees-the long-leaf pine, cypress, white cedar or juniper, and short-leaf or rosemary pine.

"The fact that boxed turpentine trees have been found to make lumber equally durable to the unboxed, and more capable of standing a transverse strain, has lately brought to market large tracts of abandoned orchards.

"The short-leaf pine is found over the whole of the long-leaf pine belt, on wet clayey soil, being very abundant, and the chief lumber tree lying above the Tar river, where it attains a larger size than any of the yellow pines of eastern America, reaching a diameter of five and a-half feet, with a limbless bole 80 to 100 feet long.

"In the middle district the oaks largely predominate, being mixed in most places with yellow or short-leaf pine.

"The oaks of this region include a number of red and black oaks, very valuable for woodwork and furniture. White oak and post oak, which make excellent wagon timber and furniture, are very common and reach large size.

Black walnut is common along with the oaks, but attains its greatest size in the mountains, There are found in this region four hickories growing. abundantly on all kinds of soil and furnishing valuable wagon material.

"It is in the mountain counties, where the Appalachian system is most developed, that the val

"Yellow poplar reaches its greatest development in the mountains. Trees containing 4000 feet are frequently cut. There is a church on Hominy creek, Buncombe county, all the woodwork of which came from one poplar tree, which contained over 8000 feet of lumber.

"No Southern State has a larger amount of soft wood, suitable for paper manufacture, than this State. In the mountains there is an abundance of lin (American linden), the chief material used farther north for making paper, also buckeye and ash.

"In the middle and eastern sections there are large areas of three kinds of ash suitable for this use and easily accessible."

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-A correspondent of the Toledo Commercial says that a lumber company at Goshen, Ind., have closed a deal by which they into possession of a fine lot of walnut trees. The trees are just twenty in number, and were grown on twelve acres of ground. They were purchased of a farmer in La Grange county. for $4900, or $245 a tree. The transaction is not only remarkable for the price paid, but for the size and quality of the timber. One hundred teams were engaged to move the timber to the Goshen yards where it will be prepared for market, the butt cuts, saplings and limbs will be converted into lumber at the home mills and sold to furniture manufacturers, but the choice cuts will be hewed and shaped for export in the log to London, Hamburg and Paris.

-It is asserted that the best, strongest and most fibrous material in the shape of wood, now used as pulp for paper, is made from spruce logs.