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AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



grows more than twenty-five feet high and a few inches in diameter. Its range follows 

 the Atlantic coast southward from Mount Desert Island, Maine, to North Carolina. 

 It is probably more abundant on the pine barrens of New Jersey than elsewhere. 

 The trunks are too small to be of use for anything but fuel. 



PRICB OAK (Quercus pricei) is a California tree, supposed to be very local in its 

 range, since it has not been found outside the drainage basin of a small stream in 

 Monterey county. That locality on the coast of California appears to be the starting 

 place or principal abiding place of several tree species, among which are Monterey 

 cypress and Monterey pine. The Price oak attains a height of twenty-five or thirty 

 feet, and a diameter of twelve inches or less; consequently it is too small to be of 

 value to lumbermen, even if it were abundant. The leaves resemble those of Cali- 

 fornia live oak, and are believed to remain two summers on the tree. The acorns 

 mature the second season. 



