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the tree in its growth. These specimens are most interesting as 

 they have received the best of care and all disease prevented by 

 constant attention. 



Samples taken in igog. Samples taken in IQIO. 



1 B. G. Tulip Tree standing free, drowned out by the con- 

 struction of a dam and cut in June, 1909, Part of the summer 

 wood was formed, it was located about eight feet above running 

 water. 



2 B. G. Carolina Poplar. It was transplanted in 1896 placed 

 on the edge of a grove where it continued to grow under natural 

 forest conditions. There were no trees situated within seventy 

 feet of it on its free side and it was growing about twenty-five 

 feet above the lake. 



3 B. G. Maple. Taken from the center of the border screen 

 along the Harlem tracks, where it was transplanted in 1896 about 

 ten feet above the lake, and left to grow under natural forest 

 conditions with nothing within ten feet of it. 



4 B. G. Linden. Natural growth and growing under natural 

 conditions fifteen feet above the Bronx River and surrounded on 

 all sides by trees. 



5 B. G. Catalpa. Transplanted tree growing in the center of 

 a grove twenty-five feet above the Bronx River. 



6 B. G. Ailanthus. Standing free in a very warm sunny 

 position, natural growth, twenty-five feet above the Bronx River. 



8 B. G. Elm. Natural growth, thirty feet above the Bronx 

 River, growing on the upland, clear on one side but nothing grow- 

 ing very near it on the other. 



