Forests.
The forests of Virginia are large, and the timber varied, and the lumber
trade important, and the following is a fair catalogue of the trees of Virginia
now growing wild in the different sections:
The oaks: White oak, post oak, swamp white oak, chestnut oak,
yellow oak, red oak, scarlet oak, black oak, black-jack oak, Spanish oak,
pin oak, willow oak, bear oak, bastard live oak, scrub white oak, water
oak, turkey oak.
The pines: The table mountain pine, white pine, pitch pine, Jersey
scrub pine, yellow pine, loblolly pine, hemlock pine.
Cypress, juniper, bay laurel, red cedar, white cedar (arbor vitæ),
umbrella tree, white wood (white poplar), yellow poplar, Lombardy poplar,
pawpaw (custard apple), linden, fringe tree, catalpa, sassafras, slippery
elm, red elm, water elm, winged elm, sugar berry, horn beam, red mulberry,
white mulberry, moris multicualis, sycamore, black walnut, white
walnut (butternut), shellbark hickory, white hickory, red (mochermes)
hickory, pignut hickory, butternut hickory, chinquepin, chestnut, beech,
water beech, ironwood, cherry birch, red birch, black alder, holly, sugar maple,
red maple, curled maple, bird-eye maple, box elder or ash-leaved maple,
stag horn (sumac), poison elder (thunder tree), common locust, yellow
(mountain) locust, honey locust, red bud (Judas tree), wild plum (Prunus
Americanus), wild cherry—red (P. Penna), wild cherry—black (P. Scrotina),
nine bark (Spirea Opulofolia), southern crab, scarlet fruited thorn,
wild currant (June or Service berry), witch hazel, sweet gum, swamp
dogwood, ailanthus (Paradise), black gum, black haw, laurel (ivy), rose
bay (rhododendron), persimmon, white ash, black willow, weeping
willow, white willow, golden willow, silky willow, aspen, dogwood, lashhorn,
cucumber, cottonwood, buckeye ash, swamp huckleberry, hazelnut,
paulonia, silver maple, spicewood, yew, paper mulberry.
