PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

Liquidambar Styraciflua, L. Sweet Gum.
Planted for ornament in northern parks. Wood used for furniture and a few other purposes. Bark medicinal. Magnolia glauca, L. (White) Bay.
Cultivated for ornament in the North. Wood good for broom handles, etc., but little used. Bark medicinal. Anona glabra, L. Custard Apple. Ulmus Floridana, Chapm. (and perhaps other species) Elm.
The wood of most of the elms is hard and tough, and used for chairbacks, bicycle rims, etc. Several of them are planted for shade-trees. Quercus nigra, L. Water Oak.
A common shade-tree in the South. Wood not good for much except fuel.
Carpinus Caroliniana, Walt. Ironwood.
Wood hard and heavy, good for levers, tool-handles, etc., but little used. Salix longipes, Anders.? Willow. Myrica cerifera, L. Myrtle.
Sometimes cultivated for ornament. The berries furnish wax. Sabal Palmetto, (Walt.) R. & IS. Cabbage Palmetto.
Cultivated for ornament all over Florida, and in a few places in other states. Trunks often used for piles in salt water, because they are not attacked by the teredo. The terminal bud ("cabbage") is edible. Juniperus Virginiana, L. (Red) Cedar.
A common shade-tree around old settlements. Wood used for posts, boatribs, pencils, etc.
Chamaecyparis thyoides, (L.) B. S. P. Juniper.
Wood very durable, used for poles, buckets, shingles, etc. Taxodium distichum, (L) Rich. (River) Cypress.
Planted to some extent in northern parks. Wood very durable, used for canoes, poles, piles, shingles, barrels, sash, doors, blinds, etc. Taxodium imbricarium, (Nutt.) Harper. (Pond) Cypress.
Wood used for poles, piles, cross-ties, shingles, etc. Pinus Elliottii, Engelm. Slash Pine.
An important source of lumber and turpentine, almost equal to its better known relative the long-leaf pine. Pinus serotina, Mx. Black Pine.
Wood ve.y similar to that of the short-leaf pine, but little used, because there is always long-leaf pine to be had near by, and that is much better in every way.

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