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climate is Seay ea! favorable to the development of the 
sphagnu They are built up almost wholly by the sphagnum, 
and pee can develop only in regione where there is sufficient rain 
and ie to permit t up above the water level. 
w the facts fecardiag raised bogs that I have just pointed 
out ee a rather important application. If, as I have said, 
these raised bogs are restricted to regions where cli matic condi- 
as to the degree to which the climate there is suited to the sphag- 
nums. 
I have spent a month this past summer investigating the 
sphagnum situation along the Maine coast. Starting in at 
the raised bogs become more and more common, and surgical 
d 
sphagnum, at first very local in it ,b an 
more general in its distribution. There seems to be little ques- 
tion that the coastal region of Maine, from Penobscot Bay east- 
ward, is the most promising part of the eastern United States in 
which to look for supplies of surgical sphagnum. Unfortunately, 
owever, many of the very best bogs—-the ones most suite 
the growth of surgical pees and the ones easiest to get at— 
e 
any change in external conditions. In spite of these difficulties, 
however, I was able to locate a pe ee number of sizeable 
tracts of good moss; and [ have no doubt that others will con- 
tinue to turn up. 
