BOTANICAL SUE VEY— SUGAR GROVE REGION 



265 



THE BIRCH BOTTOM LAND 



One often reads accounts of the settlement of the country by the 

 pioneers of bottom-lands covered with birch instead of willow, but so 



Fi^. 10. 'I'lic liin-li Rdttmi. -..:■; :; (i>iir>T Cr.M- 

 Bctula lutcii in iilniost pure staiul. 



far as Ohio is coiicfi-ticd, these liave almost comiiletely vanished, iiirc!) 

 bottoms, however, must originally have al)ounded along the streams in 



