. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . ristic of the spruce, has maintained itin younger individuals, besides the decrepit old ones which the logger has left; whilethe white pine, which cannot reproduce itself under the shade of the hardwoods, isalmost extirpated, except in occasional openings. The hardwoods, while furnishing a full and pleasing canopy of foliage, which maymislead the uninstructed into the belief that he is looking upon a virgin woods, exhibitin the old specimens the decrepitude of age, dead branches and rotten heart, and
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . ristic of the spruce, has maintained itin younger individuals, besides the decrepit old ones which the logger has left; whilethe white pine, which cannot reproduce itself under the shade of the hardwoods, isalmost extirpated, except in occasional openings. The hardwoods, while furnishing a full and pleasing canopy of foliage, which maymislead the uninstructed into the belief that he is looking upon a virgin woods, exhibitin the old specimens the decrepitude of age, dead branches and rotten heart, andmany of the younger, thrifty-looking trees, upon closer investigation, also show thesigns of decay as a result of the running fires which have swept over nearly everyculled tract of the wild woods. This, then, is the condition : a forest of old decrepithardwoods, deteriorating from year to year, with a tainted progeny strugglingbeneath, and a small though promising number of young spruces impeded in theirdevelopment by the former, with occasional older trees that can be used as seed AXTON IN EARLY SPRING.
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