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P. jezoe?ists, P. Koyafnai, P. montigena, P. Morinda, P. 



nigra, P. obovata, P. Omorica, P. orientalis, P. retrofiexa, 



P. sitchensis, P. yunnanensis. 

 Pinus Armandi, P. Bujigea?m, P. cembra, P. contorta var. 



Murrayana, P. densiflora, P. excelsa, P. Jeffreyi, P. Laricio 



(all varieties), P. monticoia, P. palustris, P. ponderosa^ 



P. Sfrobus, P. sylvestris, P. tuberculata. 

 Pseitdotsuga Douglasii, Sciadopitys verficillata, Sequoia settiper- 



virens, Thujopsis dolobrata, Thuya koraiensis, Th. gtgantea, 



Tsuga heterophylla. 



Report on Results obtained from Seed of 

 Douglas Fir presented in 1922. 



With a view to assisting us to restock the areas cleared for 

 war purposes, Mr Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the 

 American Forestry Association, generously sent a consignment 

 of Douglas fir seed (green variety) to the Forestry Commission 

 in the spring of 1922, and the Commissioners very kindly made 

 over a portion of the gift to the Society. In May of that year, 

 the seed was distributed in packets of 2 and 4 lbs. to some 

 thirty members who had applied for it. The only conditions 

 attached to the gift were that the seed should be used by the 

 applicants themselves, and that the plants obtained should be 

 formed into a separate plantation, or confined to a definitely 

 recorded portion of one. As both the donors and the Forestry 

 Commission were interested to know the results of this dis- 

 tribution, a circular was sent this spring to all the recipients 

 of seed asking for a return of information as to the progress 

 of the seedlings. About twenty of the recipients replied, and 

 the following is a summary of their reports. 



The germination averaged 60 per cent., ranging generally 

 from 50-90 per cent. ; but in one isolated case in the south-west 

 of Scotland it was only 10 per cent., said to be due to late 

 sowing and a cold summer; in all but three widely distant 

 nurseries the germination was very even. The plants were 

 reported to be very healthy in all but one case, in Perthshire, 

 where they were going sickly and dying; in this nursery plants 

 from seed collected locally were not unhealthy, and no explana- 

 tion has as yet been offered. With the foregoing exception 

 and the case in the south-west already referred to, all reports 



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