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a report on the subject, has become history. " Leave them 

 alone," he says, " and the pine woods of Nantucket are 

 doomed to destruction ; to plant new trees would be to add 

 fuel to flames. " But that is not all. " There is no apparent 

 reason," to quote Prof. Scudder again, "why the destruction 

 should not extend to the Penobscot, or as far as the pitch pine 

 flourishes. " To prevent this it is the plain duty of the Nan- 

 tucket people " to cut down the entire forest, sell the wood 

 [for fuel] and burn the brush, leaving not even a seedling 

 anywhere ; then to pasture the sheep upon the spot for two 

 years, and carefully destroy every seedling that springs up out- 

 side of the fences which confine the flock." See a paper by 

 Prof. Samuel H. Scudder on the Pine Moth of Nantucket, 

 published by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 

 of Agriculture. 



S. sylvestris, L. SCOTCH PINE. 



Near Miacomet Pond. Imported trees planted by Mr. Henry 

 Coffin in 1876. Scotch larches near them also planted by Mr. 

 Coffin. 



JUNIPERUS, L. 



J. Virginiana, L. RED CEDAR. SAVIN. 



Abundant on Coatue, where the old trees have grown into the 

 strange form often seen on wind-swept points of land ; the 

 low, twisted trunks and branches close to the ground make an 

 impressive appearance. 



MONOCOT YLEDONS. 



AKIS^EMA, Mart. 

 A. triphyllum, Torr. INDIAN TURNIP. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. 



