powerful attractions; and where the soil is given over to agriculture the production of timber of course stops.[1]
The Pond Cypress (Taxodium imbricarium, or ascendens) is confined
Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) in Very Shallow Flatwoods Pond (Dry at this Time), Pasco Co., Florida. April, 1909. This species is readily distinguished from T. distichum by its crooked trunk and coarser bark, among other things.
to the coastal plain, from eastern North Carolina (perhaps as far north as the Dismal Swamp) to southern Florida (south end of the Everglades) and eastern Louisiana. It extends over 150 miles inland in the Carolinas and Georgia, but apparently not over 100 miles in Alabama or 60 miles in Mississippi. It seems to be most abundant in Georgia, where it does not form large forests, but is often the dominant
- ↑ For valuable information about the economic aspects of the long-leaf and several other southeastern pines see Bulletin 13 of the Division of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, by Dr. Charles Mohr (1896 and 1897).
