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TIMBER. 



Of Home Growth. 



Common oak, some trees . . 



10, others 



14, 



others 18 



Spanish chestnut, . . . . 



% 



5, 



6 



Scots elm, U. montana, . . 



16, 



25, 



32 



English elm, U, campestris, . 



0, 



10, 



0 



Red-wood willow, .... 



8, 



14, 



0 





3, 



5, 



0 



Wild cherry, Pruiiiis cerasus, 



16, 



24, 



0 



Black Italian poplar, . . . 



9, 



0, 



0 





20, 



SO, 



40 





0, 



10, 



u 



White larch, free or rot, . . 



0, 





1 Q 



lo 



Of Foreign 



Growth. 









0, 



43, 



0 



Red Canadian pine, . . . 



0, 



100, 



0 



Yellow Canadian pine, . . 



38, 



44, 



0 



The process of maturing in several did not pro- 

 ceed regularly, some of the rings being reddened on 

 one side and remaining white on the other : this 

 did not seem to be influenced by position to south 

 or north. In the larch, particularly in those trees 



