THE ADIRONDACK BLACK SPRUCE. 



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TABLE XI. 



ACRE No. 5. 



Lot 31, Township 19, Franklin County. 



Average diameter, including five inches : Black spruce, 

 inches ; hemlock, 12^ inches ; balsam, 6f inches ; yellow birch, 

 14^ inches ; hard maple, 14 inches ; beech, lOf inches. 



The general composition of the Adirondack forest is fairly rep- 

 resented by the species shown in the five preceding tables. But 

 in traveling through the wilderness exceptional forest tracts will 

 be often noted. In some localities, as shown in Table XII, the 

 hemlock predominates, and the spruce is of secondary importance. 

 In others the white pine, which has nearly disappeared from the 

 Adirondacks, is still to be found. Then, again, in some places 

 only one of the three dominant hardwoods is growing. 



In illustration of these exceptional types of timber land we fur- 

 nish here some tables based on notes and measurements made by 

 Forester Frank C. Parker, who was instructed to examine certain 

 tracts in Essex county. 



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