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hope that the heart would be sound, and that a good log could be 

 obtained near the top. This cut, however, presented a condition 

 similar to the first one, the heart and sap wood were badly decayed. 

 This condition was suihcient to cause the abandonment of the entire 

 tree. There were no evidences on the trunk, below the brandies, 

 of the fruit bodies of any fungus, nor of any injury which might 

 have afforded an entrance for the fungus. The cut ends of timber 

 were so badly roughed up by the saw that no structural characters 



88. — Pockets of decayed tissue in tj'unk of red spruce. 



in the diseased timber wliich mio-ht aid in the determination of the 

 si)ecies of fungus could be seen. The next step was to determine 

 the fungus and the ])lace where it entered the tree. 



Since the decay at the stump was so slight, and the diseased area 

 so small in comparison with the extensive injuries farther up in the 

 trunk it was quite evident the fungus had not entered from below. 

 Upon searching in the top of the fallen tree, it was found that the 



