. Acadian geology [microform] : the geological structure, organic remains and mineral resources of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Geology; Paleontology; Geology; Geology; Geologie; Paléontologie; Géologie; Géologie. OF FOREST FIKE3, 49 and flourish in the mellow soil. On the most barren portions, the bluebfrry appears almost everywhere; great licUls of red raspberries and iirc-wecd or French willow, ^ up along the edges of the l)eech and hemlock land, and abuud-nco of i-edberried elder and wild red cherry ui)p{'ar soon after; but ui a (vw years, the raspbe
. Acadian geology [microform] : the geological structure, organic remains and mineral resources of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Geology; Paleontology; Geology; Geology; Geologie; Paléontologie; Géologie; Géologie. OF FOREST FIKE3, 49 and flourish in the mellow soil. On the most barren portions, the bluebfrry appears almost everywhere; great licUls of red raspberries and iirc-wecd or French willow, ^ up along the edges of the l)eech and hemlock land, and abuud-nco of i-edberried elder and wild red cherry ui)p{'ar soon after; but ui a (vw years, the raspberries and most of the herbage disap|)ear, and are followed by a growtli of firs, white and yellow birch, and poplar. When a succession of tires has occurred, small shrubs occupy the barren, the Kalinia, or sheep- poison, being the most abundant; and, in the course of ten or twelve years, form so much turf, tir ', thicket of small alder begins to grow, under the shelter of which i:r, spruce, aacmetac (larch), .and white birch spring up. When the ground is thoroughly shaded by a thicket twenty feet higii, the species which originally occupied the ground, begins to prevail, and sufTocate the wood which sheltered it; and within sixty years, the land will generally be covered witii a young growth of the same kind that it produced of ; the above statements to be a correct summary of the principal modes in which ftn-ests arc rc})roduccil, we may proceed to cousiilcr them more in detail. Isf, Whore the forest trees are merely cut down and not burned, the same descripti'ii of wood is immediately reproduced. This may be easily accounted for. The soil contains abundance of the seeds of these trees, tliere are even numerous young plants ready to take the place of those which have been destroyed; and if the trees have been cut in winter, their stumps produce young shoots. Even in cases of this kind, however, a number of shrubs and herbaceous plants, not for- merly grow
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