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Plate XV 



F 49)94A 



Fig. 1. — One Year After Cutting; Needles Still On, Forming Dense 

 Screen Which Is Unfavorable to Reproduction. 



Fig. 



2. — Three Years After Cutting; Needles Forming Dense Mat 

 Which Interferes With Germination. 



