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Diameter {Number of} Length of | Diameter | Number, a anil 
SPECIMEN | o¢ stump, | rings on | shaft, in attop, | of rings tree 
NUMBER. | in inches. | stump. feet.. | in inches. | at top. | 0’ rock. 
I 200 4. 78 64 
iz a 2 3 88 | 60 
14 175 50 9 98 79 
14 161 48 II 103 67 
14 182 42 12 99 59 
13 176 48 4 35 39 
13 180 36 6 50 61 
13 157 42 7 60 57 
13 150 28 8 76 57 
13 200 44 10 102 66 
13 138 40 4 59 58 
13 162 34 6 87 
13 172 27 8 103 61 
13, 192 38 7 96 70 
3 200 44 9 137 72 
As people quite often inquire about the difference between 
white and black spruce, I insert pictures of twigs from both, 
with cone and seed. The black spruce is the larger and more 
common tree in this state. With lumbermen a spruce isa 
spruce, regardless of whether the botanist would call it black or 
white. All four of the plates of the spruces used in this 
paper, were kindly loaned me by Hon. William F. Fox, 
superintendent state forests, New York. 
