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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



! centuries old. and beside it in for its trunk had attained the unusual 



earl}- days a grapevine started its ex- size of nearly a loot in thickness. This 



istence. ' Little by little it extended its size is also evidence that it was win- 



,:S-like branches up and finally ning the victory, as is further attested 



- the oak. In course of time it by the fact that it had partly killed the 





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Illustration of a Finish Fight Between a Live Oak and a Grape- Vine in a North 



Carolina Forest. 



rly enveloped it. appropriating to tree. But one of its massive folds 



'ng sunlight for which near the base had become involved 



riving. How in the crotch of the tree which grad- 



lo: E have continued ually closed in upon it, constricting it, 



great size of the vine, as though with monstrous jaws, until 



