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were alike when planted in 1894, and which remained alike under similar 

 treatment till 1898, when those shown in fig. 4 were grassed over. 



Fig. 4. 



The growth of the trees was arrested at once, and they have been going 

 from bad to worse ever since, till now they are all dead or dying. 



In other and deeper soils the grassing-over of established trees may 



