loblolly

• “The pines were scrubby, -- what are known as the loblolly pines, -- and from ten to twelve inches through at the butt.”

  The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

• “Thus it is the loblolly, which is the almost entire second growth of nearly all the tide-water region, refuses to grow at a short distance (generally varying from five to twenty miles) and at an”

  Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

• “Pines such as loblolly (Pinus taeda), slash (P. elliottii), shortleaf (P. echinata), Virginia”

  2 American Experience

• “This root is much used among the Dutch people in a kind of loblolly or hotchpot, which they do eat, calling it _warmus_.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “This is the (pinus tæda,) "loblolly," "fox-tail," or "old-field" pine which, in lower Virginia and North Carolina, so generally covers, as second growth, the poorest worn-out fields -- and also as well grows still better (though not as exclusively,) in original forests on low and miry lands.”

  Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

• “You will find the two varieties of the p. tæda recognized by Elliot, who calls the 'swamp pine' p. tæda, and the 'loblolly' var. Heterophylla" -- [which latter is recognized by all other botanists as simply p. tæda.] Dr.”

  Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

• “As it is a disputed question, which will be considered hereafter, whether the great Swamp or Slash Pine, a valuable tree for lumber, is of the same species, or different from this, for the present I will speak only of such trees as are undoubtedly of the kind known as "loblolly" pines.”

  Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

• “Page 262 applied to other pines, I prefer the vulgar name used in South Carolina, of "loblolly," which, though unmeaning, will not mislead by having more than this one application.”

  Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

• “Once the road leaves downtown, loblolly pines, magnolia and live oaks dripping with vines crowd in on either side, their branches forming a green canopy overhead.”

  The Huffington Post: Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student

• “Destry opened his mouth and said, My moustache was telling my beard this awesome joke about a rabbi, a golden axe, and a loblolly pine.”

  The Girl (Heart That’s Healing) « A Fly in Amber

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