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1 Hardwoods are beech, hard maple and white birch. 

 ' Spruce, hemlock, pitch pine and a little red pine. 



WORCESTEE. 



Worcester is more interesting as a consumer of lumber than 

 as a producer. Its percentage of woodland, 21, is far less than 

 any other township in the county. What there is is valued far 

 in excess of its timber value for residential and aesthetic pur- 

 poses. For this reason the percentage of woodland in larger 

 sizies is unusually large. Chestnut predominates, either pure or 

 mixed with oak, while white pine is deficient and under the 

 average pei-centage. The woodland is generally in good con- 

 dition, except for the chestnut blight, which has done con- 

 siderable damage in many sections. The woodland around 

 Lake Quinsigamond shows the result of many ground fires. 



A large manufacturing city like Worcester is naturally a large 

 consumer of lumber, both for construction purposes and in its 

 industries. Most of this lumber, however, comes from outside 

 the State, as is the .general run with our lumber supply. The 



