160
Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to 
Aug. 15
(No. 8)
  Although in connection with other subjects I have 
already mentioned most of the trees and shrubs which I
have noticed in this region it may be worth while to
note more definitely the respective distribution and relative 
abundant of the different species.
[margin]Trees &
shrubs[/margin]
  The white pine, the hemlock, the beech, the red oak
(apparently the only Quercus), the paper, yellow and gray birches,
the rock and red maples, the white ash, the rum cherry
and the choke cherry are all abundant and very generally
distributed. The red spruce occurs only sparingly in mixed
woods but it springs up in dense thickets in many of
the neglected pastures especially those which lie along the
slopes of the Pack Monadnock range of hills. Some of the
older trees are tall with straight, clean stems available
for timber.
  The striped maple, the mountain ash, the hobble bush and
the yew are common but nowhere very numerously represented;
the red cedar and ground juniper appear to be confined to
Ben Mere farm and I have seen the red pine only in a 
pasture near Cunningham Pond where there are a few trees
of fair size; the hop hornbeam seems to be also uncommon
and the balsam fir is apparently rare for, with the
exception of trees growing near houses and evidently planted,
we have found only a single small specimen near 
Ben Mere farm and less than a dozen were seen by
Mr. Deane on the summit of Pack Monadnock.
The arbor vitae and mountain laurel are said to be
wholly absent and, strange to say, we have found 
no sweet fern although the hilly pastures seem admirably
adapted to it[.] (After this was written I found a little near Cunningham P.)
  Of course there are viburnums (casssinoides et dentatum)