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Dealers in cities get from forty to sixty cents a pound. The seed 

 is plentiful during seed years (about every five years). Mature 

 trees produce one to eight bushels of cones. Each cone averages 

 ten to twenty seeds and trees have been known to yield 300 pounds 

 of seed per acre, while large areas have produced sixty-five pounds 

 per acre. The seeds have a high per cent, of infertility and lose 

 their germinating power easily unless they are especially stored. 

 There follows a table of five samples of seed collected from va- 

 rious localities, with their germinating per cents. 



No. seeds % viable, % viable, % viable, % viable, 



per pound, knife test, water test, green house, open. Where collected. 



2510 87.2 84.0 82.2 75.6 Ft. Bayard, N. M. 



2215 87.1 86.6 80.3 69.2 Tres Piedras, N. M. 



1810 91.2 86.0 78.1 70.4 Ft. Garland, Col. 



1950 92.7 88.5 81.3 71.0 



1520 99.2 97.1 96.4 90.3 Lincoln, N. M. 



Owing to infrequent seed years, infertility of the seed, loss of 

 germinating per cent., loss of seed from rodents, birds, grazing, 

 and man, and unfavorable site-conditions it is difficult to secure 

 a reproduction of Pinon Pine. In the future management of this 

 tree a selection system in which the dead and dying trees are 

 removed for fuel seems to be the only practical one. 



A Study of Pinon Pine. Botanical Gazette. September, 1909. 



The name of the small town of Halstenbek 

 Nursery in Holstein is familiar to many American 



Practice. foresters as the seat of the extensive nurser- 



ies of Heins' Sons. Evidently the location 

 is favorable for this business for, according to v. Reitzenstein, 

 there is still another monster nursery to be found there, namely, 

 that of H. H. Pein, the oldest in existence, nearly a century old, 

 which covers about 200 acres and controls altogether the growth 

 on nearly 500 acres, most of the transplants being grown under 

 contract with small adjoining growers, who have become experts 

 under the influence of the principal grower. The trade is about 

 150 million a year. 



The location is within the direct influence of a sea climate, on a 

 fine deep, strongly humose loose sand. Hedges of Thuya, Car- 

 pinus, and Syringa surround and separate the smaller nurseries 

 besides furnishing windbreaks. 



