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Title: A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Muir, John, 1838-1914 Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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nd-Mile JValk cover the ground with their leaves as at theNorth. Strange plants are crowding about menow. Scarce a familiar face appears among allthe flowers of the days walk. September 2Q. To-day I met a magnificentgrass, ten or twelve feet in stature, with asuperb panicle of glossy purple flowers. Itsleaves, too, are of princely mould and dimen-sions. Its home is in sunny meadows and alongthe wet borders of slow streams and swamps.It seems to be fully aware of its high rank, andwaves with the grace and solemn majesty ofa mountain pine. I wish I could place one ofthese regal plants among the grass settlementsof our Western prairies. Surely every paniclewould wave and bow in joyous allegiance andacknowledge their king. September so. Between Thomson and AugustaI found many new and beautiful grasses, tallgerardias, liatris, club mosses, etc. Here, too,is the northern limit of the remarkable long-leafed pine, a tree from sixty to seventy feetin height, from twenty to thirty inches in(54)
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A SOUTHERN PINE River Country of Georgia diameter, with leaves ten to fifteen inches long,in dense radiant masses at the ends of the nakedbranches. The wood is strong, hard, and veryresinous. It makes excellent ship spars, bridgetimbers, and flooring. Much of it is shipped to the West India Islands, New York, and Gal-veston. The seedlings, five or six years old, are verystriking objects to one from the North, con-sisting, as they do, of the straight, leaflessstem, surmounted by a crown of deep greenleaves, arching and spreading like a palm.Children fancy that they resemble brooms, anduse them as such in their picnic play-houses.Pinus palustris is most abundant in Georgiaand Florida. The sandy soil here is sparingly seamed withrolled quartz pebbles and clay. Denudation, go-ing on slowly, allows the thorough removal ofthese clay seams, leaving only the sand. Not-withstanding the sandiness of the soil, much ofthe surface of the country is covered with stand-ing water, which is easily acco

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