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Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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gress of the nursery and aboretum hassufficiently advanced and the proposed plantings have reached char-acteristic peculiarities, it is expected that the student and lover ofplants may find ample field for study and recreation; the planter, thetypes of beauty appealing to his senses, and the artist, the shades andtints of Flora in her seasons. FLORA. The flora of any region includes all the indigenous or nativeplants, and such foreign species as have been introduced and showtheir ability to maintain themselves without cultivation. A floraincludes flowering or phaenogamous plants as well as flowerless orcryptogamous plants, but only such as grow wild. The specific con-stitution of a flora depends firstly upon the climate, and secondlyupon the geology of a district. A third modifying force is composedof numerous smaller factors of less importance than either of theabove; but which in the aggregate amount to a very considerableinfluence. Among such factors we may enumerate the following:
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o o Flora. 57 (i) Age and condition of civilization. (2)Density of population. (3)Methods of agriculture. (4) Presence or absence of railroads andnavigable streams. In a climate like ours virgin soils are usually covered by forestgrowth, which by its varying density shelters a greater number ofspecies of low growing plants than unwooded land shows. As settle-ments grow older and population denser, the forest gives way totilled fields and introduced crops which crowd out the native speciesof lesser economic value. Crops like cotton and corn, which requireclean cultivation are far more destructive to the native species thanare meadows and pastures where native plants have a chance to com-pete with the introduced grasses. Railroads and navigable rivershelp to introduce and spread foreign plants and in so far they are un-favorable to the native flora. The introduced species now in NorthCarolina come from Europe, Eastern Asia, South America and theISTorthem Middle States in about the order

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