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Plate 7. — TirnlM-r iv,- sp.,il,.,l l,v -iAuMn,- l-- ■mirl, ;,l,,,„- i„ ,,,ilv youth. 

 Notice how the cruwdcd .\ .uin>^; l inilicr in the I .mcLlmmiumI i- n-litinti itcif, the lower 

 branches dying ofY early from ovcrshading, leaving tall, atraight, clean bules. (From 

 PiNCHOT, U. S. Dept. of Agr.) 



