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put a certain lot. A piece of neglected grass land may appear like a 

 pasture, or a cut-over maple swamp resemble a bush swamp. The 

 differences are not important, however. 



YOUNG SPROUT LAND. 



This type is found where a hardwood or a mixed hardwood and 

 pine growth has been cut off during the past eight or ten years. The 

 land is covered with a reproduction growth of oaks and chestnut 

 sprouts, which vary in height from 2 feet in the youngest to 15 in the 

 oldest. Some stands of thick young birch growth have been included 

 in this type, although they are not of sprout origin. On most of this 

 land no immediate treatment is necessary, but on lots 106-113 a fire 

 ran through the young sprout growth and killed it over an area of 

 about 150 acres. In order to restore this area to forest land, it will 

 have to be planted. On lots 149, 150, 153, 153B, 157 and 160, which 

 have just been cut off, the sprout growth is rather scattered on account 

 of the large number of pines contained in the growth. Some planting 

 in the open spaces might well be done here. 



This type covers the largest area of all, and is in part the result of 

 the policy of the city in buying woodland under the condition that the 

 former owner should have the privilege of cutting the wood before a 

 certain date. Unless this was done in many cases, the land could not 

 be bought at any price; but it is a poor policy, from the view point of 

 watershed regulation. 



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CULTIVATED LAND. 



Cultivated land means not only land under cultivation, but grass 

 land and land occupied by buildings. Out of a total acreage of 

 1,117, the city owns but 190, and this area should be planted to tree 

 growth. A good wood crop will be found to pay a better rental than 

 is now obtained from this farm land as it is let out to be cultivated. 



MAPLE SWAMP. 



This is the name given to the wooded swamp land which follows 

 around the shore of the pond and along the courses of the brooks. 

 Red or soft maple is the prevailing tree, but birch and alder are often 

 mixed with it. The trees are usually small and of no commercial value; 

 but the maple swamp area in Blossom Swamp contains some good- 

 sized stands, which would be classed with the medium hardwoods. 

 Some light thinning might be done in these stands, but in the rest 

 of the growth no treatment is necessary. 



