. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. js\Jy^?<mru ULLETIN No. 272 Contribution from the Forest Service HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester. j\J?*^Wlt Washington, D. C. September 27, 1915 THE SOUTHERN By Wilbur R. Mattoon, Forest Examiner. CONTENTS. Importance 1 Geographical and commercial range 2 Present supply and annual cut 3 Properties of the wood 6 Uses 10 Cypress lumbering 11 Markets and prices 17 Stumpage 18 Life history of the tree 19 Botanical forms 19 Occurrence 20 Age, size, form, bark, leaves 2,3,24 Root system 24 Reproduction 29 Climate and
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. js\Jy^?<mru ULLETIN No. 272 Contribution from the Forest Service HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester. j\J?*^Wlt Washington, D. C. September 27, 1915 THE SOUTHERN By Wilbur R. Mattoon, Forest Examiner. CONTENTS. Importance 1 Geographical and commercial range 2 Present supply and annual cut 3 Properties of the wood 6 Uses 10 Cypress lumbering 11 Markets and prices 17 Stumpage 18 Life history of the tree 19 Botanical forms 19 Occurrence 20 Age, size, form, bark, leaves 2,3,24 Root system 24 Reproduction 29 Climate and soil 34 Injury 36 Life history of the tree—Continued. Growth Cypress stands Pure stands Mixed stands Yield Forest management Utilization of cypress lands Aim and method of management. Profitableness of management Treatment of virgin stands Cut-over cypress areas Care of young stands Planting and sowing cypress Appendix. 39 46 46 46 48 SO 50 54 54 CO 62 C2 64 70 Volume and taper tables 70-74 IMPORTANCE. In the amount of lumber produced in 1913 cypress ranked sixth of the conifers or softwoods. On account of the durability of the heart wood and its moderate softness, which makes it easily worked, cypress is a wood of high intrinsic value. Cypress trees not un- commonly reach an age of over a thousand years, a height of from 120 bo 130 feet, and a diameter above the basal swell of from 8 to 10 feet. Cypress is very persistent in growth, and is one of the few conifers which successfully sprouts from the stump. Cypress is restricted in its natural occurrence to deep, rich swamp lands. The problem of bringing it under forest management is there- fore intimately related to Mint of reclaiming swamp land on an ex- tensive seule by drainage. Though preeminently a tree of the swamp, when planted it thrives in as wide a range of climate and soil as • Southern cypress (Tazodium dinlichum Wen.;, of the southeastern United States is known among botanist:* as "i.:i)ri" cyprew bec
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