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CHAPTER III THE RATE OF GROWTH

happen to have no measurements at hand with which to make this comparison in the case of our native trees, but from a paper by Mr Charles E. Hall69 I have compiled certain mean values for growth in the climate of Uruguay.

A line graph plots annual growth rate in centimeters against age in years, showing an oscillating curve within an envelope.
Mean monthly increase in Girth of Evergreen and Deciduous Trees, at San Jorge, Uruguay. ( After C. E. Hall. ) Values expressed as percentages of total annual increase.
Jan.Feb.Mar.Apr.MayJuneJulyAug.Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec.
Evergreens〇9ôñ1〇8ôñ88ôñ68ôñ97ôñ75ôñ44ôñ36ôñ09ôñ111ôñ110ôñ810ôñ2
Deciduous trees20ôñ314ôñ69ôñ02ôñ30ôñ80ôñ30ôñ71ôñ33ôñ5〇9ôñ916ôñ721ôñ0

The measurements taken were those of the girth of the tree, in mm., at three feet from the ground. The evergreens included species of Pinus, Eucalyptus and Acacia; the deciduous trees included Quercus, Populus, Robinia and Melia. I have merely taken mean values for these two groups, and expressed the monthly values as percentages of the mean annual increase. The result (as shewn by Fig. 31) is very much what we might have expected. The growth of the deciduous trees is completely arrested in winter-time, and the arrest is all but complete over {120} a considerable period of time; moreover, during the warm season, the monthly values are regularly graded (apôÙproxôÙiôÙmateôÙly in a sine-curve) with a clear maximum (in the southern hemisphere) about the month

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