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Fig. 8. Sketch to show proposed Limestone Ledge and Pool 

 , in Local Flora Section. 



Hudson River into Dutchess County and northwestern Connecticut. 

 The weatherbeaten rocks which compose these ledges have crev- 

 ices into which our very discriminating plants may thrust their 

 roots and o])tain the necessary calcareous food materials which 

 enable them to survive. The Local Flora Area has hitherto been 

 developed with very little constructional ex]:ienditure, the costs 

 having been ]:)ractically confined to purchase of sand and jieat for 

 the elaboration of certain habitats. The gift of ]\lr. Bernbard 

 Hoffman, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, of cnie truck-load of 

 weathered limestone l;)oulders, recorded in our ]:>receding report, 

 should be recalled here with renewed expression of appreciation. 

 This made i:)ossible a beginning of the limestone ledge, but the 

 treatment needs to be carried out on a much larger scale in order 

 to sinnilate natural conditions. Now, with the uprooting of five 

 locust trees 1)y the hurricane and the resulting disfigurement of 

 the southwest corner of the area, the time seems ripe for an appeal 

 for funds for the construction of limestone ledges, to be approxi- 

 mately ten feet high and located in a limited area in the shaded 



