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the course of forty or fifty years, however, the seedlings overtake 

 the sprouts and live to a greater age. Most of the chestnuts 



By permission of the Connecticut State Forester. 



Fig. 9. A plantation of chestnut and black locust 68 years of age. 



of southern New England are of second or third growth, and 

 it is seldom that a tree over 150 years is found, though in the 



