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n the Garden Journal for 1907, Mr. Nash described and 
feared a yOune tree planted near the Museum building which 
grew Dr. Siebold said that his young 
trees grew six to ten feet in a year and increased their diameter 
our or five inches in three years. This rapid growth makes soft, 
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was made in Paris in working with the first 
Pee ee During the first year, they made no wood and conse- 
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sprouts the following spring with leaves nearer their adult form 
and struc as been spoken ‘large ‘b,” 
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grows wild fr hern New York southward along the Atlantic 
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