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this region, of small commercial importance. The soils are very 

 wet and covered with thick deposits of sphagnum moss. 



Sometimes the stands contain only the white cedar, but usually 

 have a mixture of soft maple growing with the cedar. Even-aged 

 seedling stands, containing a remarkably large number of trees 

 per acre, are characteristic of the white cedar swamps. The 

 growth of stands in this region has not been thoroughly studied, 

 but figures taken by Pinchot,^ in stands of the same t>pe in 



By permission of the Massachusetts Slate Forester. 



Fig. io6. — Pitch pine type on a poor site, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 



New Jersey, showed as many as 3,500,000 young seedlings per 

 acre, at twenty years over 10,000 trees, at forty years 3500 

 trees, and at eighty years 1000 trees per acre. A stand of pure 

 white pine has at sixty years only 250 to 300 trees per acre. 

 White cedar is a slow grower even in the regions suitable for 

 its best development, while in the white pine region it must be 

 classed as an extremely slow-growing conifer. Of course, the 

 wet site has an important influence on the rate of growth. 

 Referring again to figures secured by Pinchot in New Jersey 

 1 See Annual Reports of the State Geologist of New Jersey. 



