OCCUPA TION OF LAND. 



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meters high (10-20 feet), growing up in an abandoned orchard 

 near Ithaca. In this reforestation of impoverished lands, man 

 can give great assistance by timely and proper planting. 



Fig. 480. 



Self-sown white pine in abandoned orchard ; trees 9-20 years old. Near Ithaca. (Photo- 

 graph by the author.) 



689. Beauty of old fields. — During one season from my win- 

 dow I beheld a marvellously beautiful sight. The scene was 

 located in a portion of an old field on a hillside, in a rapidly 

 growing part of the city. New buildings had sprung up all 



