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debatable one. Howe* suggests that there may be such a thing as "in- 

 herent dominants" among spruce. Due to the numerical dominance of 

 the hardwoods, few of the suppressed spruce will get the chance to 



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recover. That not all of them have the ability to recover is evidenced 



' Howe, C. D. : Forest Regeneration on Certain Cut-over Pulpwood Lands in 

 Quebec. Ninth Annual Report of the Commission of Conservation of Canada, 

 1918. 



