Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 397
Slowly, but inexorably, dwarf oaks, cherries, and snow-bushesinvade the grassland, and change it into a thicket. from year to year. Bushes and shrubs have adecided advantage over them, however, in be-ing able to begin growth each year at theplace where they stopped the year before.Grasses must die… … The thickets give way be/ore the pines, which make apark-like forest. gin anew the following spring. The shrubsgrow taller and broader each year, shading thegrasses beneath them, and taking the sunshinethat these need. As new shrubs spring uparound the original invaders, the grasses dieout in turn…
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