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maple, reel maple, shagbark hickory, blue beech, black oaks, 
chestnut, and birches. A line white ash occupies a commanding 
site on the crest of the front-yard knoll, while on the right margin 
of the yard a line tulip tree is dominant and a sturdy maple holds 
commanding sway on the left hand margin. The wet-weather 
brook grove at the right of the dooryard contains an irregular open 
growth of tulip trees, birches, maples, oaks, and hickories, with no 
undergrowth except sprouts of the parent trees. The outcropping 
ledges of the knoll at the rear and east side of the house are over- 
grown with huckleberry, sumach, bramble, woodbine, and wild 
grape, while the dry edges of the knoll back of the house support 
a scrub growth of oaks, hickories, maples, birch, and hemlock, with 
undergrowth of sassafrass, huckleberry, witch hazel, laurel, sumach 
and sweet fern, besides saplings and sprouts of the native hardwoods. 
In the swamp thicket between the house and the pond shore are 
tulip trees, birches, alders, willows, maples, dogwood, aspens, bass- 
wood, sumach, wild grape, and fire cherry. The shore line of the 
pond is thick-set with buttonbush, alder, birch, and maple saplings, 
almost isolating a swamp-grass and cat-tail marsh of small extent 
which adjoins the premises as an additional factor of influence in 
the bird life of the locality. On neighboring premises are bits of 
meadow and garden, with berry patches and orchard trees, all so 
near that the sounds of the calls and songs of the birds therein 
form an essential part in the Guest House environment. 
An examination of the environment near the Guest House shows 
that the forest encompassing Little Long Pond includes the fol- 
lowing trees: walnut, butternut, shag-bark hickory, cottonwood 
(Populus ) , sugar maple, beech, white ash, birches, chestnut-oak in 
large percentage of occurrence, linden or basswood, tulip tree, 
chestnut (blighted or dead), sassafras, silver or white maple, 
red maple, black cherry, fire cherry, hemlock, white oak, black oak. 
aspens, buckeye (in small proportion), red cedar, paper or canoe 
birch, black birch, and various hickories. These species are listed 
in the order of their occurrence in a trip around the Pond, begin- 
ning along the western end and going toward Kanahwauke bridge, 
returning along the trail on the eastern shore of the Pond. With 
these trees the following shrubs and vines are associated : sumach, 
