FALMOUTH 



This is next to tlie largest town on the Oape and has a 

 variety of types. The oak tjrpe is the largest with the pitch 

 pine and oak type, as well as the pitoh pine type following in 

 order. In many sections of this town there are evidences of a 

 good crop of white pine, but the fire has killed nearly all of 

 it. Near the fire tower in West Falmouth there is the remains 

 of a good stand. There are many large trees with a diameter of 

 12 to 15 inches. Very few of these are alive. Those that are 

 alive are hearing seed and will do their bit toward reforesting 

 this area, but as soon as fire hits them they are doomed. Hear 

 Jenkins Pond there is a large area well covered with white pine 

 of all sizes. Reproduction is taking hold in fine shape and the 

 trees are growing fast. In the vicinity of Spectacle 5ond another 

 large area of good white pine is fo^lnd which is throwing a good 

 seed crop every year. Near Deep Pond in Hatchville there are a 

 number of large pine which have well seeded the land. With all 

 of these large trees throwing seed it is certain that if fire is 

 kept out a large portion of this town will come back into white 

 pine. Near Ashumet Pond a large number of white pine two feet 

 in diameter were standing, but these all had been fire killed. 

 They now stand out in mute evidence of man's handiwork. On an 

 estate in Falmouth is a good stand of larch. This no doubt had been 

 planted but it is Just another evidence of «hat this section is capa- 

 ble of doing. A number of years ago on the Fay estate in Woods Hole 

 There were many areas planted to spruce, Scotch pine and larch. The 

 scheme of things in this planting was to fill in small open spaces 

 rather than lay out any regular plantation, but the results of this 

 yearly pian.ting are still visible 'and another proof of the value of 



