30 The New York State College of Forestry 
Table IX shows the caliper record reduced to an acre basis 
not curved. The planted species are white pine, red pine, 
Scotch pine, Norway spruce and blue spruce. The species that 
have reproduced naturally are red spruce, balsam, sugar maple, 
red maple, black cherry, fire cherry, aspen, beech and yellow 
Yirch. 
The comparative numbers of trees planted outa not be 
determined with accuracy since several spacings were included 
in the study. Blue spruce was not planted in quantity. The 
presence of red spruce and hardwoods was general over the tract 
but more prevalent on approaching the timber belt mentioned. 
The preponderance of hardwood species, combined with the 
greater height of any given inch class makes the competition 
ai the planted softwood very keen. THeights were taken at 
random over the plantation to get the relation of height to 
diameter for each species in each inch class. They are recorded 
in Table X with the number of trees measured beside each. 
The general impression, created by the plantation and the 
compiled data, is that the method here used of clean cutting in 
its true sense with burning of brush has resulted in producing 
a mixed hardwood and sea ood forest, and as such is suecessful. 
This does not answer, however, the problem of planting hard- 
wood land as ordinarily cut for all merchantable species, nor 
does any other plantation thus far found in the Adirondacks. 
From Table TX, it is worth noting that the number of trees 
per acre, fifteen years after the establishment of the plantation, 
is 1,540.79. Of these, 553.33 are planted stock, all softwoods. 
There are in Aa 44.63 native red spruce and balsam, 
naturally reproduced. The striking thing to be noted is the 
invasion by natural reproduction into a prepared and planted 
site, of the great numbers of native hardwoods. ‘These total 
942.83, or 61 per cent of the numerical value of the stand per 
acre. ‘The occurrence of a large number of aspen and fire cherry 
in this stand is of temporary consideration only, as they are 
expected to play but a small part in the future forest, whose 
typically mixed character seems already indicated. 
