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Identifier: annualreport671913newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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wth which shows that nature without aidwill not reproduce the Scotch pine where it is not native. Only bycarefully opening up the crowns, as practised on the Ysenburg range,can a pine regeneration be induced. A sudden and large openingof the crowns brings on the hardwoods again as in the primevaltype. The old pines, as a result of the storm, all lean toward thenortheast. The stand contains from 25,000 to 30,000 feet an acre,which is good considering the relatively few trees per acre and thelarge quantity which has been removed in the past according to therecords of this department. The remaining stand will producelumber of an exceptionally high grade. From the logs upon theground it was impossible to determine their form height, but itcertainly exceeded 200. From observations previously noted in connection with oak planted 1 L ■ i ■ ( I*,*.;,/: ^ r IP- f T / J2 £ o-P, ^ £.2 «+* o M C * S O ° p ^^ o en o ° R> JH 3 o «-m w Ol -a +JC Plate 8
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A stand of spruce on the Throm, one of the high summitsof the Odenwald north of the little town of Wald-Michelbach REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I913 57 with pine on the Ysenburg range and in the Frankfurt forests onemight suppose that oak is usually a failure here, but such is not thecase. Above the frost dells it succeeds very well, and indeed, theprimeval forests of this region contained some of the largest andfinest oaks of the world, a few of which are still to be seen on theMittledick range. The Frankfurt forest contains a plantation ofoak, nearly ioo years old, with subservient natural undergrowth ofbeech and hornbeam which looks as good as any of the natural re-generation of oak seen in the Spessarts, so famous for its oaks.Here in the Rhine valley, however, the beech shows a tendency tobecome the dominant tree if not held in check. This stand of oakcontains, including the beech, some of which are of merchantablesize, 19,000 board feet <to the acre. The annual net revenue of

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