The moderately well drained Skerry soils are in a drainage sequence with Becket soils. The well drained Marlow soils and moderately well drained Peru soils have densic materials with less than 20 percent sand lenses. The somewhat excessively drained Hermon soils, the well drained Berkshire and Monadnock soils, and the moderately well drained Sunapee soils have friable substrata. The somewhat excessively drained Lyman soils are on bedrock controlled landforms and have bedrock within 20 inches. The somewhat poorly drained and poorly drained Pillsbury and Lyme soils are in depressions and drainageways.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderately slow or slow in the dense substratum.
Potential for runoff is low to high. Principle species include sugar maple, yellow birch, paper birch, eastern white pine, eastern hemlock, balsam fir, and white spruce. Areas cleared of trees and stones are used mostly for hay and pasture with a few apple orchards and cultivated crops. The series is extensive. Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 1923.