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Crown:- If two -thirds is "yellow" or "turning yellow", put 

 down "R/3"; and if the remaining third- is "normal green", put 

 "1/3" after "normal green". "Hanging needles" referred to as 

 "yellow" or "grey" refers onljr to the action of a fungous 

 growth which causes snail "black specks to appear on them. 

 "Spike top" refers to tops which have "been dead some time. A 

 dead orown tip, with the full complement of needles still hc.r 

 ing to the limbs, does not constitute a "spike top". In a 

 "flat top' 1 the tree has flattened out on top due to the ter- 

 ninal being killed and broken off. Mistletoe and witches' 

 brooms may be two very different things. Mistletoe nay cause 

 '^itches 1 brooms, but "'/itches' brooms c..re not alv'pys caused by 

 mistletoe. Care should be taken in answering these quest icns r 



Trunk:- ''Fire racers, pitch tubes and bark (tight or loose)" 

 may be answered by one, two or three crosses after the questio 

 according to the number or extent of the fire scars, the num- 

 ber of pitch tubes or the degree of the bark condition. 







Woodpecker Work:- Thic refers to a scaling off of the bark in 

 yellow pinos by the birds in the search of Dendroctonus brevi- 

 comis griibs. In sugar and Jeffrey pines holes v/ill be dug 

 through f-.e bark to the sp.pwond. Sayeucker holos in regu^.r :- 

 rows around the trunk do not come under this he^d . 



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