FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



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Broad-leaved Trees. — Contitiued. 



Burr or over-cup barren oak, 



Post or box white oak, 



Swamp white oak, 



Willow or peach-leaved oak, 



Chestnut, 



Blue beech or iron wood, 



Black or sweet birch, . 



River birch, 



White birch, 



White willow, 



Peach willow, 



Downy or swamp poplar, 



Cottonwood or necklace poplar, 



Quercus macrocarpa. 

 Quercus obtusiloba. 

 Quercus bicolor. 

 Quercus Phellos. 

 Castanea Americana. 

 Carpimis Americana. 

 Betula lenta. 

 Betula nigra. 

 Betula alba. 

 Salix alba. 

 Salix amygdaloides. 

 Populus heterophylla. 

 Populus monilifera. 



Conifers. 



Pitch pine, . 

 Jersey pine, 

 Yellow pine, 

 Red cedar, . 

 White cedar, 



Pinus rigida. 

 Pinus inops. 

 Pinus mitis. 

 Juniperus Virginiana. 

 Chamaecyparis sphceroidea. 



It will be noticed that the Adirondack list does not include the common nut- 

 bearing trees. Why these hardy species do not grow on the plateau would be hard to 

 explain. The chestnut grows in profusion, attaining a great size, in the vicinity of 

 Caldwell, on Lake George; but it disappears before reaching the uplands. There are 

 plenty of butternuts around Northville and Wells; but as one climbs the hills toward 

 Lake Pleasant, they are no longer in sight. At rare intervals, I have seen the tree in 

 our North woods, along the Jessup River, for instance, but not often enough to 

 warrant placing it upon the list. I included two of the oaks, because it is claimed 

 that these trees grow in various places on the Adirondack plateau ; but I have not 

 observed them, except some inferior specimens in Hamilton county, at Indian and 

 Blue Mountain Lakes. I have seen some large ones in the valley of the Sacandaga, 

 but none of any fair size on the interior uplands of the wilderness. 



It is claimed, also, that the black birch, the Betula len'a, grows in the Adiron- 

 dacks ; but I have been unable to find it. It may be there. My attention has been 

 called at times by guides and woodsmen to what seemed to be a black birch ; but in 

 each case the tree proved to be a yellow or a canoe birch. The young twigs of a 

 yellow birch have the same pleasant, aromatic taste as those of the black. The canoe, 

 or "white" birch when young has a black bark; and even after the tree has attained 

 a height of twenty feet or more, the limbs are black. 

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