SOME LABRADOR TREES 
thick, a height of one and one-half inches and 
a spread of branches two inches across. Yet 
this was not a seedling, for sixteen years as 
shown by its rings under a powerful micro- 
scope had passed over its head. It seemed 
cruel to pluck up such a tree after it had been 
so well started in life, and tuck it into one’s vest 
pocket. The other larches, and there were ten 
of them, that I measured, sectioned and 
counted from the bogs of Esquimaux Island 
gave the following figures: 
Hicight Extent Diameter 
o! ° of Rings. 
tree. branches. trunk. 
12 inches 38 inches 2 inches 55 
34 “ 8 “ I “ 42 
6 “ 30 “ g “ 43 
5 “ 8 “ 3 “ 31 
12 6c 24 “ 4 oo 45 
2? “ 38 
2 s 2 + “ 8 
3 4 « } “ 19 
2 “ 3 “ 6 3 10 
6 “ 18 “ 4 &c 40 
The lack of uniformity in growth is of course due 
to the many and complicated problems of 
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