. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . sides. The white flowers appear latein the spring in numerous clusters, and the fruit is small, roundand bright red. The light, soft, close-grained compact wood is light brown incolor; the sapwood a clear yellow. Prunus serotina, Ehrhardt. (wild black cherry.) A tree of the first commercial importance, with small horizontalbranches and dark red-brown scaly bark, reaching a height of lOOfeet and a diameter of 5 feet. (Plate Y.) It occurs from Nova Scotia to Tampa Bay in Florida, and west-ward to the Missouri river in Dakota, eastern Nebraska and Ka
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . sides. The white flowers appear latein the spring in numerous clusters, and the fruit is small, roundand bright red. The light, soft, close-grained compact wood is light brown incolor; the sapwood a clear yellow. Prunus serotina, Ehrhardt. (wild black cherry.) A tree of the first commercial importance, with small horizontalbranches and dark red-brown scaly bark, reaching a height of lOOfeet and a diameter of 5 feet. (Plate Y.) It occurs from Nova Scotia to Tampa Bay in Florida, and west-ward to the Missouri river in Dakota, eastern Nebraska and Kan-sas, Indian Territory and Texas, and is found also in southern NewMexico and Arizona, and in parts of Mexico, Central and SouthAmerica. It rtaches its best development on the high slopes ofthe Alleghany mountains. It was once common in all the Appa-lachian region, growing with the white oak, the white ash, thegreen ash, the sugar maple, the yellow buckeye, the hickories andthe black birch. MAP OFNORTH CAKOLINA ctr^i^«,.-^^c2^!L^.LL^-:ffS^i. Area in which the WILD BLACK CHERRYoccurs as a small tree of little commercialimportance (Prunus serotina, Ehrh.) Area in which the WILD BLACK CHERRYoccurs as a large tree of the first economicimportance. rjTT??] Distribution of the WILD RED CHERRY•• (Prunus pennsylvanica, L.) In this State, where it attains an average height of 60 to 80 anda diameter of 2 to 3 feet, it occurs through all parts of the State^but is less common in the coastal plain, where the soil and climateare not so favorable to its growth. It reaches its best dimensionson the rich cool slopes of the mountains. (Fig. 8.) 60 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Forest trees bear fruit abundantly about every third or fourthyear; trees growing in the open more frequently. Seedlings are?common in moist, rather open situations. In the higher monn-tains, where only it grows large enough to be of economic impor-tance, trees over three feet in diameter are apt to be hollow or red
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