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clothed with branches between all the points. 
results to 1899 are placed at the end of the Table. 
that for the last three -years the increase at the three points was 
all but identical. 
The general 
They show 
> Girth. INCREMENTS. Girth. | In Total Girth 
for 3 ne, a 
A more | for 7 
1892. 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. [Total. ree 1896. | years. | years. 1899. 
: 
At2ft., 12651250 | 2°25 | 1:85 | 195 1855 | 214] 20°60 | 4:55 | 1310 | 1°87 | 25°15 
At4ft., 7°75] 2.30 | 2°05 | 1:50 | 1.75 [7°60 | 190] 15°35 | 4:40 | 1200 | 1:71 | 19°75 
AtG6ft., 6°65] 2°25 | 2:10 | 1°60 | 1:80 17°75 | 1:94] 1430 | 450 | 1225 | 1°75 | 18°80 
ABIES HOOKERIANA. 
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] 
No. ose | 1388. | 1889, pa 1891. Ha 193. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896; | 1397. po" AnD. | Girth. 
24 | ‘60 | €0 0 | 55 a| a “| ‘50.| 565.| 60 45 [60 Fg ae 
| i : { 
This shrub-like tree grew at a somewhat better rate for the 
first three years, when overcrowded, than afterwards when 
opened up. 
It has suffered from pressure on one side, but is 
generally well clothed. The range has been from ‘45 to °70, but 
for the last seven years it was only “45 to °55. 
SEQUOIA GIGANTEA. 
| : 
Annual ‘ 
Inc ARG Girth}. 
No, 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. [Total.| “4.7 | Last 
Decade. Obs. 
25| 81 | 65 | 70 | 8 | 80] 75 | 90 .» [465 | °76 | 36-70 
27} 141 | 90 | ‘70 | 100/100] -80 | 1:50 oe . |... | 590e] 98 14400 
1} 137 $135 | 90 | 125/125 | 90} 96} 90} 65 | -95| 45 J955 | G6 | 42-25 
2] 128 $105 | 90/105] 85 | -70| -90 545 | -90° | 42°10 
All these trees—Nos. 25, 27, nage free on the former ter- 
race, Nos, I, 2 ina small grove of the species—in 1878, when from 
18 to 24 inches in girth, were symmetrically clothed and crowded 
with branches to the ground ; but they soon began to thin and 
