Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-01

dromedas, blueberres, azalias and the
gorgeously blooming kalmia or Sleeps
laurel. There the fragrant storax shrubs,
the delicate halesa and fringe tree, with
the cyrilla, stuartia and clethra, unfold
their snowy flowers, with many others,
delighting the eye by the richness of
their bloom, from the earliest beginning
of the spring to the end of the summer,
Offering lasting feast to the bee, which
for the largest part of the year is here
found to gather the sweet treasures dis
titled in the flowery cups. AS a honey
producing country, this district can be
scarcely rivaled.
"Where the limestones and the marls of
the tertiary and cretaceous formation be-
gin to prevail, free from the cover of
sandy drift soil, the second forest region
of the State is entered. Here the ever
greens give way to the largely prepon-
derating trees with deciduous leaves and
the pine is confined to the poor ridges and
thinnest soils. The forest growth is Or
iginally interrupted by more or less ex-
tensive savannas. The post oak covers,
in extensive tracts, the sitter calcareous
soils. White oaks, the overcup oak and
the willow oak, with ash trees, elms, wal
nuts and hickories, cover the richer black
lands, composing fine woods, full of use
full timber of large dimensions. AS a
timber region for export, it has yet no
importance; only limited quantity Of
oak slaves reach the seaboard by the Mo-
bile and Tombigbee rivers. The richest
agricultural districts of the State are em-
braced in these regions. At its northern
limits it borders upon a deposit Of drift,
; which trayerses the State from northwest
to southeast, four to five miles wide at its
southern, reaching gradually towards its
northern end width of 30 to 30 miles.
, Like the great coast pine belt, it is cover
cred with an almost continuous forest Of
the yellow pine, whose products so far
e serve only to supply the demand of the
e surrounding country.
beyond this drift belt, in the eastern
n half of the State, the generous red lands
s of the metamorphic region are covered,
s where not deprived of it by cultivation,
: with magnificent oak forests. Here, at
q an altitude of from 800 to 1900 feet
e above the level of the Gulf, the types of
n a southern vegetation are missing, but
:. the occurrence of the water and willow
:, oak, the overcup and Spanish oak, as
e well as the frequency of large yellow
l. pines, which cover the crests of the ele-
IS waited rocky mountain ranges, and the
l. more barren hills with rocky, siiceous
h soil, still impress on this region south
5, ern character. The latter tree is replaced
<, gradually, towards the north, by the
is short leaved pine, Pinus mitis, which fur
II nishes, in the upper district, great part of
the lumber of excellent quality The
is more sterile and broken mountainous
c. country, east and west, embracing the
n mineral lands of the State, is covered
it with dense forests of black and red oaks
at the smooth hickory. sparsely intermixed
lr with scrub pines. In the more elevated
st ranges, the mountain chestnut oaks and
r the chestnut tree prevail, the latter rap
t, idly dying out. The numerous fertile
u valleys are harDorng fine woods, COM
e, posed of trees delighting in richer soil
ne "The third and most northern sylvan
H. region of the State begins with the lime
y, stone formation of the Tennessee valley
of Species of the woody vegetation charac.
H. teristic of the lower ATTITUDES are no more
b, seen or when met with as dwarfed strag.
re glers. The naples, the tall hickories, the
I'd stately elms, walnuts, wild cherry, hack
berries, nettle trees with shady groves OF
as beech, make up the forest growth, bearing
ne the same character as the forest fora OF
u the western declivty Of the Appalachian
ke mountains south of the Ohio river. The
to southern magnoias are represented here
es by the umbrella tree, the cucumber tree
is and the mighty white poplar or tulip
he tree" j. b.