OCCUPATION 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 orcliard ; 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 



