Pim Vl

methods. The depth and distribution of roots was observed in 1998. Two intersecting trenches were dug almost 9 ft deep adjacent to a poplar tree. The exposed roots were counted along each exposed area. The soil in between the roots was washed away after pins were driven through the roots along one of the exposed faces. The LAI was estimated by Ferro et al. (2001) who, at the end of the growing season, removed and weighed all the leaves from trees that they had instrumented earlier with…

amusing herself beating her way through one of the brambly thickets Mrs. Incandenza had — when she'd still spent time outdoors at all — planted to discourage part-time employees from short-cutting up the hillside to E.T.A., and had come upon a Husky Vl-brand telescoping tripod, new and dully silvery-looking and set up on its three legs, right in the middle of the thicket. For no visible reason and with no footprints or visible evidence of path-beating anywhere around except the U.S.S.…