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Title: Certain features of German forestry
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: House, Homer Doliver, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Albany, The University of the state of New York
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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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 13 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 lOO 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 the Frankfurt town forests is $16 ahe

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