1909] Deane,— Notes for Shelburne, N. H. 21 
NO'TES FROM SHELBURNE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
WALTER DEANE. 
I have spent portions of many seasons in Shelburne, New Hampshire, 
a town of some three hundred inhabitants, lying on both sides of the 
Androscoggin River. ‘The valley is about 210 meters above sea level 
and the flora is characteristic of northern New Hampshire, but a record 
of a few plants found there may prove of interest. Тһе two pines of the 
region are Pinus Strobus L. and Pinus resinosa Ait., the former of 
wider distribution. In the summer of 1881 I discovered a fine speci- 
men of Pinus rigida Mill. on a wooded slope about 35 or 40 meters 
above the intervale on the farm of Mr. A. E. Philbrook. Under date 
of February 8, 1909, Mr. Philbrook writes: “The Pitch Pine you 
found in 1881 is sixty feet tall and thirteen inches in diameter, is in 
good condition and has cones. Two small ones have come up near 
by that are about twenty feet high and three or four inches in diameter." 
Dr. A. S. Pease and Mr. А. Н. Moore, who have been working very 
systematically for a number of years on the flora of Coos County, which 
includes the town of Shelburne, have been unable thus far to detect 
any more Pitch Pine in their limits. It was, therefore, with added 
interest that I was shown in October, 1908, two additional trees in 
Shelburne. On October 18, Professor Ephraim Emerton, who has a 
summer home adjoining the Philbrook Farm, showed me on the plateau 
near his house a vigorous Pitch Pine about 5 meters high and fully 
1.5 decimeters through 12 decimeters above the ground. It was grow- 
ing naturally in a grove of White and Red Pines and it may have been 
a seedling from the one previously mentioned from which it is about 
4 hectometers distant, or perhaps from the third specimen which is on a 
wooded slope about midway between the two. 
This last tree was shown me on October 25 by Mr. Philbrook on 
whose farm it grows, but a few minutes’ walk from the tree of 1881. 
This pine is about 18 meters high, 5 decimeters through at the butt, 
and 4 decimeters through some 12 or 15 decimeters above the ground. 
It is a fine straight specimen full of cones, but leafy only near the top 
owing to its close proximity to the surrounding trees. No seedlings 
were discovered. 
Another interesting find for Coos County is Juniperus communis 
