Annual report . REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I9I3 6j by fumes and gases issuing from their chimneys. The state ofSaxony, in order to avoid further litigation, bought the tract in1900 for $125 an acre. All sorts of experiments have been tried here to secure a forestgrowth which will not be killed by the fumes. The spruce is suffer-ing badly all around here from the work of a weevil, so much so,that in one fine pole-wood seven out of every ten trees had beenremoved for this cause alone. Of mixed plantations of conifers andhardwoods it appears that here the native birch (Betulap e n d u 1 a) is m
Annual report . REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I9I3 6j by fumes and gases issuing from their chimneys. The state ofSaxony, in order to avoid further litigation, bought the tract in1900 for $125 an acre. All sorts of experiments have been tried here to secure a forestgrowth which will not be killed by the fumes. The spruce is suffer-ing badly all around here from the work of a weevil, so much so,that in one fine pole-wood seven out of every ten trees had beenremoved for this cause alone. Of mixed plantations of conifers andhardwoods it appears that here the native birch (Betulap e n d u 1 a) is most resistant to the fumes, that Japanese larchdoes better than the German larch, that Scotch pine and Jack pineare more resistant than white pine. The Antonsthal range, for nearly a quarter of a century in chargeof Oberforster Gleier, is reached by a short train ride from Schwar-zenberg. Like most of the Saxon Erzgebirge, the slopes are steepand the soil, except in the bottoms, thin and sterile. It is rare tofi
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