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year seedli 0 to five feet high, five saplings, 
and one pe sized ieee. Pa to replace the veteran when it 
ies 
e facts that there are no hemlock seedlings, and have not 
been during the past twelve years, notwithstanding annual vari- 
n 
This lads area lies on the crest of the high morainal region 
which covers some ects . aS es in he upper ae 
of the tee peninsula of Mic f well 
over 1300 feet. This ee descends to Lake Michigan in a 
onsite Weectation tha apparently hardwood and white pine. 
d through the great hardwood forest, one 
reaches the familar type of cut-over land covered with aspens 
and interspersed with a few farms, and this type of landscape 
extends east as far as Gaylord. 
We turned north from Gaylord to the 
plateau, where the well-made oa Cone pata views 
of miles of rolling, forested country, and eae west approxi- 
Here the coun- 
tryisunusually rough panies Thevalleyscontain peat bogs 
hills and fed by: ae water as se tem the high pies 
to the south. In this plateau regio: 
toa Te Pay wate percolates at once into ce “sandy 
soil 
spr ings into 
sees out from te bas At the remote, almost inaccessible, but 
hi ile o 
s tr 
with a better supply of ei eee moisture, supports a better 
