Excerpt from The Adirondack Black Spruce The following article is from a report made to the New York State Forest Commission in 1894. No claim or pretension is made to any original researches of a botanical nature. The report aims rather to furnish information of a general character concerning this, the leading merchantable species in the great forest of Northern New York. At the same time it is hoped that there may be something in these few pages which may be of interest alike to the botanist, forester and lumberman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.