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out squares measuring ten feet on each sitlc and 

 containing a hundred square feet, and I identi- 

 fied, counted and recorded all the trees and 

 bushes in each of these squares. Then I took 

 the outside string and lifted it over the forest 

 trees and over the second string. Again 1 counted 

 the trees in the squares and repeated the process 

 with the secc^nd string. By alternately passing 

 the strings over each other and over the loftiest 

 forest trees I was able to make a most intimate 

 and accurate census of my forest, and all it con- 

 tained and I plotted an elaborate chart of the 

 same. The result indicated about tifty-five dif- 

 ferent kinds of New England trees and some 

 twelve hundred individuals. At the end of this 

 chapter I have made a list of the different trees. 

 Nearly all the species are in the forest, but some 

 are now to be found in other places in my twelve 

 acre lot. 



Time went by and it was evident that the 

 trees had won over the grass, which grew scantier 

 and scantier in the shade. Even the wild straw- 

 berries, that had at first increased with the killing 

 out of the grass, were disappearing, and I began 



