Also our seasons fluctuate naturally, they always have, they always will. Should one seed to every one hundred square feet of surface germinate and grow into a tree our forests would be so dense that no sunlight would filter thru to the ground. Should one out of every ten of these survive to the age of one hundred years the cruisers of future generations would no doubt tally more than a hundred thousand board feet to the acre. It would be a wonderful forest of tall straight-boled giants. On the smooth surface of a well packed trail thru the forest the Naturalist counted an average of more than one hundred seeds to the square foot beneath the parent trees, and more than fifty to the square foot a hundred or more from the trees.
Nature plants ten thousand seeds where only one or two can hope to grow.