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Title: Report on the trees of Fairmount park. A study of the trees growing naturally in the park forests and of those planted for shade or decorative purposes
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Philadelphia. Commissioners of Fairmount park. (from old catalog) Paul, Oglesby. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fairmount park, Philadelphia. (from old catalog) Trees
Publisher: (Philadelphia, W. F. Fell company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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therefore steadily chang-ing in character, and the change is not for the better. Thenobler trees are gradually giving way to the less worthy kinds,and in the end this must inevitably impair the stately dignityof these forests. Let us examine these records from another view-point,considering the forests merely as wooded tracts, regardless oftheir composition, and observe what is occurring. So littlenatural reproduction is taking place at (1) Georges Hill, (4)Beechwood, (21) Woodside, (16) Mt. Pleasant, (18) SnydersWoods, (17) Fountain Green, that these forest areas areactually disappearing. The humus in all of them is very thinand there is little or no undergrowth. The forest coveringin some cases is of grass; in others the public is trampling outthe young growths; in others the forest floor is frequentlyburned over. One or usually more of these conditions prevailin each case and make it impossible for nature to carry out itswork. Left unaided, these woodlands are doomed, I believe. 22
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