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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



seedlings in spite of the fact that any tree, of whatever 

 age, if it grew from a seed, is i)roi)erly called a seedling 

 tree. Trees from 3 to 10 feet in height are small sap- 

 lings, and from 10 feet in 

 height nntil they reach 

 a diameter of 4 inches 

 they are large saplings. 

 (See figs. 50, 51, 57.) 

 Small poles are from 4 

 to 8 inches in diameter, 



Fig. 44.— Forest trees standing too far 

 apart to help each other. Lake 

 Chelan, Washington. 



and large poles from 8 to 12 

 inches in diameter. (See figs. 

 54,55,andPl. XXIX.) Trees 

 from 1 to 2 feet through are 

 standards, and finally, all 

 trees over 2 feet in diameter 

 are veterans. (See figs. 34, 

 56, and Pis. I, XXXI, 



Fig. 45.— a White Pine seedling, 

 showing the slender roots. Mil- 

 ford, Pa. 



XXXII.) 



It is very imx)ortant to re- 

 member that all these diam- 

 eters are measured breast high, or at the height of a 

 man's chest, about 4 feet 6 inches from the ground. In 

 forestry this is, roughly speaking, the general custom. 



