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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



several centuries old, and beside it in 

 early days a grapevine started its ex- 

 istence. Little by little it extended its 



for its trunk had attained the unusual 

 size of nearly a foot in thickness. This 

 size is also evidence that it was win- 



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

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



Photo by Romeyn B. Hough. 



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



Carolina Forest. 



'nearly enveloped it, appropriating to tree. But one of its massive folds 



itself the life-giving sunlight for which near the base had become involved 



the live oak was also striving. How in the crotch of the tree which grad- 



long the struggle must have continued ually closed in upon it, constricting it, 



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



