Claim · model-written summary
Planted spruces west of Kodiak survived but remained dwarfed with little growth.
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Verbatim
e0“a'-'fewspruces brought*from Sitka and planted at Ounalaskaby the Russians about fifty years ago.V: They are still alive iu a dwarfed condition, having made scarce any appreciable growth since they were planted”
Title
John Muir Scholarly Commons (University of the Pacific) 1883
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