Show j Poplars Taking Place of Spruces In many parts of the country second sec ser ond end and third growth timber Umber Is entirely entire entire- ly unrelated to the original trees The Catskill mountains when first visited by y white men were largely covered with spruces and hemlock Such areas as have been cut over have nearly always always always al al- al- al ways b been en taken possession of by beech apple and birch and of late years ears it has been noted poplars and aspens show a strong disposition to grow v up up in abandoned abandoned clearings throughout the region region where Rip Van Winkle slept t f |