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chestnut grows faster than oak, although there was no com- 

 plaint of deterioration of chestnut hereabout, after reaching 30 

 years of age. , There is no erosion of the slopes here, and the 

 clearings appear to be well cultivated. Between the Ivchigh 

 Valley railroad and the road from Little York to Bloomsbury, 

 the timber is mainly chestnut, oak and hickory, ranging, in 

 different parts, from 4 to 8 inches in diameter, and 20 to 30 

 feet in height, up to 18 inches in diameter, and 30 to 50 

 feet in height. Quite a good deal has been recently cut and 

 a considerable area is brush. Along the Musconetcong val- 

 ley slopes, above Warren paper mills, there are a few hem- 

 locks ; and on the same slope, near the West End mines, the 

 timber ranges from 10 to 24 inches in diameter and 40 to 55 

 feet high. Further southwest the timber on this mountain 

 varies a good deal, the different wood-lots having been cut 

 at widely different periods. Near Gravel hill an oak stump 

 was noted 100 years old and averaging 32 inches in diameter. 

 Mr. D. Harrison, of Bloomsbury, mentions a lot of 20 acres on 

 this mountain which was cut about 12 years ago and which has 

 grown very little since, being now only 10 or 12 feet high, 

 although all around it the growth is good. In general, the 

 timber grows well and quickly. Chestnut usually comes up 

 after cutting off, and he thinks the wood grows as well as ever 

 it did, and that the wood is now better than it was formerly, 

 that is, it is more durable. He mentions a young chestnut pole 

 which was cut 80 years ago and has been in use ever since, being- 

 still well preserved. 



On Succasunna Plains we find a good deal of scrub-oak, 

 especially just northeast of Flanders, about the sand-pits and 

 eastward of the Morris canal to the northeast of Kenville. This 

 occurs on a sand belonging to the Green Pond mountain rocks, 

 and it is said that this scrub-oak has been the same for a long 

 time. It was noticed that where these scrub-oak lands had 

 been cleared they appeared to raise good crops. Generally there 

 is more timber over the plains than on the other valleys of this 

 portion of the Highlands. Quite a good many white pines were 

 noticed near Flanders, with some young pine, and a few hem- 

 locks. Along the south side of the road from Flanders to Suc- 

 casunna the timber ranges from 10 to 15 inches in diameter and 



