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ting the intervales of the Nashua valley with trunks and branches 

 thickly tufted with minute branchlets. 



Of course in a paper for an occasion like this only a very partial 

 enumeration of the great and notable trees I have found in Worces- 

 ter County can be made. As I have said, almost every town has one 

 or more trees whose characteristics or associations give to it a special 

 interest. 



