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au inch in diameter. Here is another tree in the same con- 

 dition. The pine is very peculiar. It is as careful as any 

 member of the aristocracy of England in keeping its age. In 

 1896 this pine has grown from where my fingers are. A 

 pretty good growth for one year. Last spring that existed, 

 as you may see, in embryo. There is a bud for the next 

 year's growth. In the year 1895 it was there [pointing to 

 height of tree in 1895], in the year 1894 it was there, and in 

 the year 1893 it was below^ there [showing by the pines he 

 had on the stage their age and how much they grew each 

 year J . The pine is very careful how it keeps its record. 

 You count the grains or the rows of limbs, and you will find 

 one, two, three, four. That pine was growing at a pretty 

 good rate. I have frequently known them to grow from 

 thirty to thirty-six inches in a year. A member of our 

 Board of Agriculture told me that he found a pine that had 

 grown four feet in height in a year. 



By the way, the pine has its enemies, like everything else. 

 There is a tree [specimen exhibited] some twenty years old 

 or more. There is a weevil, and when in its fly state it lays 

 its eggs at the base of the central bud at the top of the tree. 

 There is a bud there with a lot of buds around it. There 

 were four buds from which these branches started last spring, 

 and this central bud was that from which this grew. [Mr. 

 Lyman was here illustrating from a pine he had in his hand.] 

 The fly lays its egg at the base of the central bud. If it 

 would only lay its egg at the base of some of the side buds, 

 it might do good. It knows how to do the most evil. The 

 eggs hatch and the little worms eat into and up through the 

 central growth, which is the stem or body of the tree, and 

 kill it, and the lateral limbs then grow and make a branching 

 top. The tree in that case becomes branching, [See speci- 

 men.] I have never seen the pine weevil very far from the 

 sea coast. I see very little of it fifteen or twenty miles from 

 the sea coast in our section. This specimen might have been 

 killed from some other cause, Imt the weevil operates that 

 way. Here is another tree [showing dead pine]. That did 

 not have enough of sunlight and air. Now, here is one that 

 had too much, and it had them largely on one side. It kept 

 a good record of the conditions in which it grew. This 



