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Title: Arboriculture
Identifier: arboriculture56inte (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: International Society of Arboriculture
Subjects: Arboriculture
Publisher: Chicago; International Society of Arboriculture
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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ARBORICULTURE 77 One lo-ft. log, 14" diam at butt, 13" at top. One lo-ft. log, 13" diam. at butt, 9" at top. The second tree measured twenty-six inches at the butt, and tapered gradually to a nine-inch top, fifty-two feet up. It was straight and perfectly sound throughout. Several logs from each of these trees had been split once through the center, and all showed up perfectly clear and sound-hearted throughout, the first cut eighteen feet long not even show- ing a knot. A larger tree standing near, measured eighty-four inches circumference two feet up; seventy-two inches circumference twelve feet up, the estimated height being sixty feet to forks. Another of about the same height meas- ured seventy-six inches circumference at butt; sixty inches twelve feet up. Most of the trees in this natural grove had grown up within fifty years. The growth had never been dense. Many slender, upright saplings were growing fifteen to twenty feet away from other trees, and there is no evidence that this natural growth has ever been crowded. The farmers, who valued these trees and wished them to grow well and rapidly, had seen to it that every tree had sufficient space for its roots to spread. Our chief interest, however, is not in what the forest has produced, but in what can be done by planting. Very near the natural groves I found rows of trees planted along lanes and about the borders of fields. A tree which had been recently cut from one of these rows was lying upon the ground, affording a fine oppor- tunity for measurements. The first cut was nine feet long and measured sixteen inches at butt, ten and a half inches at the top. The second cut eight feet long measured ten and a half inches at large end and nine and a half at the top, or small end. The third cut measured six
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