OPEN CLEARING AND SECONDGROWTH 



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Photo by W. B. 



FIG. 16. PURE CULTURE OF NEW GROWN CECROPIAS 



The meagre data I was able to gather concerning the 

 succession of vegetable growth in this area suggests the tre- 

 mendously interesting facts which a trained botanist could 

 record. The first things to appear were grasses or grass- 



