

freedom from butt rot. These seedling sprouts 

 may occur singly Or in clumps. P. L. Buttrick 

 writing on forest fires 1 in Connecticut says: "It 

 is the writer's observation that fully half the 

 seedling reproduction consists of seedling 

 sprouts." 



A careful study 2 of the reproduction of 

 southern Connecticut showed that 92 per cent 

 of the oaks and 87 per cent of the other hard- 

 woods are of the better growth forms, i.e. seed- 

 lings and seedling sprouts. The proportion of 

 seedlings decreases on the poorer sites and that of 

 seedling sprouts increases. 



Height growth is the factor determining the 

 final predominance of trees in a forest where the 

 young growth has a large mixture of species. 

 Of the common Connecticut hardwoods, red oak, 

 chestnut oak, and red maple are the three fastest 

 growing species. Hickory, black oak and scarlet 

 oak grow at a somewhat slower pace, while white 

 oak is the slowest of the important species. As 

 the forest matures there is little difference in 

 height growth between seedlings, seedling sprouts 

 and sprouts. In other words the rate of height 

 growth for a given species does not vary with 

 the growth form. 



While conditions in the Peoples Forest are 

 somewhat different from those where this study 

 was made (New Haven County) because of the 

 presence of pine and hemlock, the main prin- 

 ciples are doubtless the same. Table No. 7 is, 

 therefore, of interest. 



1 Forestry Quarterly Vol. 5, 1907, page 134. 



2 Yale University School of Forestry, Bulletin No. 15, Leff el- 

 man and Hawley. 



