CLOTHED WITH VEGETATION. 



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A fair impression of the primeval verdure that covered 

 these hills may be gained by a view from the top of Tur- 

 key Hill across the billowy drumlins towards Bound Brook. 

 Many shades of green are seen — the light-colored copses 

 of young beech trees off to the right, the deeper green of 

 the oak groves, and the dark patches of pine trees, and 

 the thick stumpy savins clustered about the rocky ledges 

 of the shore. No cultivated fields broke the view, all 

 was a heaving sea of variegated green lying beside a 

 heaving sea of blue, with the white spray dashing between. 



The principal difference between this and the original 

 scene is in the matter of the pine trees. These were 



Photo, Miss Harriet A. Nickersun. 



The Pines — Howe's Road near Doane Street. 



probably much more plentiful at first than they are now. 

 The plain where the town Common spreads, was covered 

 says tradition by a dense growth of pines. The sandy 

 knolls in the upper part of Beechwood, such as Barn Hill, 

 were pine lands. Artificial selection is somewhat different 

 from natural selection of favorites, so that elm trees have 



