TABLE No. 7 Showing Percentage of Area on 

 Each Site Occupied by Well- 

 Formed, Free Seedlings, and 

 Seedling Sprouts of Oak, and by 

 Other Classes of Stems in Stands 

 More Than Fifty Years of Age 



Site I Site II Site III 

 Percentage of Total Area 



Oaks, well-formed, free seedlings 



and seedling sprouts 50 55 55 



Other Hardwoods, well-formed 



free seedlings and seedling 



sprouts 15 10 5 



Sprouts, all species, and poorly 



formed seedlings and seedling 



sprouts 35 35 40 



Woody Shrubs 000 



Total . .. 100 100 100 



"Summed up for all sites, the future stand will 

 be fully stocked, even-aged, with at least one-half 

 the area occupied by oak of the better growth 

 forms, principally seedling sprouts. The remain- 

 ing one-half of the area, although in the pos- 

 session of other species than oak, will contain 

 many individuals of equal value with the oak of 

 better growth form." 



A similar study made bv another forester 1 in 

 Connecticut showed that fully half of the new 

 reproduction is of desirable species, and that 

 fully 65% of the individuals of these species are 

 of seedling origin. 



As already mentioned the number of trees in 

 the Peoples Forest has been so diminished by the 



1 U. S. Dept. of Agr. Miscellaneous Circular 100. 

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