1905] Chrysler, Reforestation at Woods Hole 123 
fidum, Poa spp., Sisyrinchium angustifolium. The clumps of shrubs 
consist of Myrica carolinensis (cerifera of New England) and a dwarf 
form of Rhus copallina with which Rubus villosus? is sometimes asso- 
ciated. The boundary between this area and the adjoining planted 
tract is pretty clearly marked, though young specimens of Pinus 
sylvestris and P. rigida are frequent near the line and a few speci- 
mens are scattered through the open area. These young trees have 
undoubtedly sprung from seed which has blown from the planted 
tract. 
In 1850 the whole area under consideration was more barren than 
the portion just described. Plate 62, fig. 1, which is a pen copy by 
Prof. Davis from a water-color owned by Miss Fay, gives an idea of 
the bareness of the region at that time. Fig. 2 shows the aspect of 
the same region in 1897. ‘The striking change in the plant covering 
of the region has been partly brought about through the efforts of the 
late Mr. J. S. Fay. But he had better tell his own story; the follow- 
ing is an extract from an address delivered by him in Boston in 
1878: 
“I will come now to my own experience, which is perhaps what 
you most want to hear, but which can be briefly stated. In 1851 1 
took possession of a place which 1 had purchased at Woods Holl, at 
the southwestern extremity of Cape Cod, on a peninsula between 
Vineyard Sound on the south and Buzzards Bay on the north, to the 
shores of both which my land extended. My house was prettily 
situated with regard to the water, fronting south, standing above 
Little Harbor, so called, and looking upon and over the Sound. In 
the rear, to the northward, the land rose gradually but not far, till it 
reached a ridge or series of bare hills, running parallel to and over- 
looking the Sound. Over and behind these, on the north slope and 
in a valley, unseen from the water on the south, were about twenty- 
five acres of natural growth of oak, hickory, beech and hop horn- 
beam, with a few pepperedge and red maples on the borders of a 
swamp. In sight of my house, about the harbor, and on the road, 
however, and indeed in all the village, there was not a single tree to 
be seen (except three Balm of Gileads), nor was there a single ever- 
green, on my whole place. 
1 See RHODORA 5:181. 1903. 
? As defined by Bailey, Evolution of Native Fruits, 371. 
