388 BULLETIN 308, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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Fie, a —Profile of trees in the original unthinned stand; 15 trees living. 
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Fic. 3b.—Same stand after first thinning by removing 7 trees; 8 trees living. 
Fic. 3.—Successive thinning in an overstocked, even-aged shortleaf stand, 30 years old. 
mediate ; 4, suppressed; 5, dead. Tree outlines in original stand. 
