74 THE WOODLOT. 



FIGURE 23. 

 Diagram or Stand in Oraxge County, X. Y. 



Sparse stand of crooked, stagheaded Chestnut (6 to 12 inches in diameter, 35 to 45 

 feet in height), in which young seedhng hardwoods (1 to 3 inches in diameter, 15 to 

 20 feet in height) have come in from seed trees on a neighboring slope. The young 

 growth is nearly all valuable and thrifty, but needs release from the inferior over- 

 wood which will soon check it. All the Chestnuts should be cut, as well as Black 

 Oak 1, which is already too much suj^pressed to recover. 



