GROWTH OF OAK IN THE OZARKS 



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the river, the two curves crossing at 45 years. This may be due 

 to the failure in this work to separate red oak from black oak. 

 There is no data for seedling red oak in Kentucky. 



A comparison of the form of these Ozark oaks with those 

 from Kentucky and Tennessee on the basis of the measurements 

 just made shows that the Ozark oaks have a considerably great- 

 er taper. Ozark black oaks of a given diameter are about 3 feet 



TABLE VII. RELATION OF AGE, HEIGHT AND VOLUME TO DIAMETER AT BREAST- 

 HEIGHT WHITE OAK. 



