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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • making new "finds" in the great, unexplored recesses of the Great Smokies have been by no means exhausted. Botanists have already listed 152 species of trees in the Great Smokies. There are, in this number, trees which are hundreds of years old. The Smokies tire everywhere covered with some form of tree growth, with the exception of the "balds" on the various peaks. Dr. William Trelease. of the department of botany, University of Illinois, has said that at the foot of Mount LeConte there are trees indigenous to southern Tennessee while at the top of the mountain are trees indigenous to southern Canada. He declares there are more kinds of trees to be found during a trip of 30 miles through the Smokies than can be found in traveling diagonally across Europe. One can walk from pure stands of pine through mixed hardwoods into a northern type of coniferous forest of spruce and fir in a few hours and observe each in association with its characteristic under-growths. 'There are giant hemlocks that rival in size the famous hemlocks of the western slopes of tin- Rockies in British Columbia. Here one finds huge chestnut trees, black and white walnuts, hickories, oaks, magnolias, birches, Juncberry, locust, mountain holly, silver-bell tree. black gum and tulip tree (or yellow poplar). I here are many trees in the park which will be easily- identified by the amateur botanist: The poplars, white oak. fed oak, black oak, chestnut, basswood, birch, cherry, beech, sugar maple, white pine, short leaf yellow pine, spruce, fir, bemlock, pitchpine, Virginia scrub pine, and others, too many to enumerate. 'The poplars and some other trees often tower to unusual height and size, adding grace and stately beaut) to the mountain slopes. Of the more than 200,000 acres of virgin forest within the Park area, 50,000 acres are covered with a heavy belt of red Spru. e. These trees grow to great heights and large diameters. 93
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