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To some people unfamiliar with them, trees are mysteries.
"Close contemplation of a great tree can arouse animal awe, if notreverence " (The author contemplates the Mercer Oak on the Princeton battlefield.)
EXPOSING ROOT SYSTEMS
1912 1932 1952 NO. 18 WHITE OAK HT33' DBH. 72"
White Oak Root Systems. NO 17 WHITE OAK HT 33' DBH. 6.5" Two small specimens (Nos. 17 and 18) in Professor Benjamin B. Stout's root study at Harvard's Black Rock Forest. Note the fierce competition between close neighbors. The workmen with pressure hoses are tracing out some of the longest lateral roots to see how far they did reach. (Photograph by Benjamin B. Stout) |
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