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PREFACE. 



The following article is from a report made to the New York 

 State Forest Commission in 1894. No claim or pretension is 

 made to any original researches of a botanical nature. The 

 report aims rather to furnish information of a general character 

 concerning this, the leading merchantable species in the great 

 forest of Northern New York. At the same time it is hoped that 

 there may be something in these few pages which may be of 

 interest alike to the botanist, forester and lumberman. 



WILLIAM F. FOX. 



ALBANY, N. Y., January 15, 1895. 





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