SOME LABRADOR TREES 



thick, a height of one and one- half inches and 

 a spread of branches two inches across. Yet 

 this was not a seedling, for sixteen years as 

 shown by its rings under a powerful micro- 

 scope had passed over its head. It seemed 

 cruel to pluck up such a tree after it had been 

 so well started in life, and tuck it into one's vest 

 pocket. The other larches, and there were ten 

 of them, that I measured, sectioned and 

 counted from the bogs of Esquimaux Island 

 gave the following figures: 



The lack of uniformity in growth is of course due 

 to the many and complicated problems of 



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