MASSACHUSETTS WOODLANDS. 



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The stand, which averages fifty years of age, is interrupted by two 

 small ponds from being a block of solid growth. This growth is a 

 result of a natural seeding of an old pasture. As a result of this 

 natural seeding, there are represented two conditions which governed 

 the policy of the thinnings, the first that of a dense condition where 

 the trees had practically started at the same time and grown up to 

 form an even-aged stand, tall and comparatively clean of their side 

 limbs. A sample plot taken in this condition will better illustrate it : 



PLOT V4 ACRE, SOUTH OF BAPTISM POND, IN DIRECTION OF THE HOUSE. 



DIAMETER BREAST HIGH (INCHES). 



A total of 66 trees, or 264 to the acre, with a height of 65 to 70 

 feet. 



PLOT 14 ACRE, ON THE FLAT BETWEEN THE Two PONDS. 



DIAMETER BREAST HIGH (INCHES). 



A total of 91 trees, or 364 to the acre, with a height of 60 to 70 

 feet. 



A better idea of the density of these trees can be realized if it is 

 known that 302 trees spaced regularly over an area would be 12 by 12 

 feet apart. 



The other condition was that where a few trees had started and de- 

 veloped very wide spreading, and with large side limbs near to the 

 ground. The density varied from a condition where the side limbs of 

 the trees came together and completely shaded the ground, to where 

 the trees stood with open spots and areas about them. In these open 

 areas there was almost always a good reproduction of white pine com- 

 ing in among the blueberry, huckleberry and kalmia bushes. The fol- 

 lowing sample area was taken where the pines had a great deal of 

 room about them, with a good reproduction of pine coming in : 



PLOT V4 ACRE, NORTHEAST OF LARGE POND, IN DIRECTION OF A FIELD. 



A total of 5 trees, or 20 to the acre, with a height of 55 to 60 feet. 



