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Atlantic coast. The area, before coming into the possession of 
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leason, so t Director of the Botanical Garden, 
is divided roughly in 3 parts, field work and laboratory work. 
The field work is - fae - which Yale, Cornell and Syra- 
cuse are cooperating. Briefly, this calls for ee instrumental 
records of the environmental conditions under stands of hemlock 
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n the Adirondacks, represents the aaa position, where the 
tree is in Compention with spruce and fi 
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ek ly 
solar radiation (given roughly by Ligon A iceoaaiurey 
maximum and minimum slg of the air and of the soil 
at six and eighteen inches depth, a precipitation. It is 
recognized that more me ate ee would be desirable, but 
practical features and expense had to be considered. The two 
Yale Forest School eet were selected, and one of them 
established on April 18. They are on ag Ridge on 
lands of the New Haven Water Com . The first station is 
growth. The second is on the top of the ridge where, in spite of 
the rocky and apparently dry Ene of the site, hemlock 
