THE WILDWOODS 



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started as sprouts from the stumps of smaller trees, but 

 most of them appear to have started from seed. Here is 

 a patch of very 

 small trees, appar- 

 ently not more than 

 six years old, and 

 two- year- old seed- 

 lings are seen every- 

 where. Among the 

 young trees are 

 tangles of wild 

 blackberries, rasp- 

 berries, and other 

 shrubbery, and in a 

 few places the grass 

 is trying to cover 

 the ground. Every- 

 thing is struggling 

 to hold its own or 

 to gain possession 

 of a little more soil 

 and light. 



Here is a dense 

 thicket of young 

 trees three to eight FlG ' 10 ' Even Spruce is made to " clean " itself 



- , . , (After W. F. Fox) 



teet high. Let us 



count. Why, there are eight live trees on one square 



