

selection is the seed-bed compartments. Such land must be a 

 fine rich sandy loam exceedingly well aheltered either by 

 natural or artificial v/iml-broakB. The water supply should be 

 placed rrith reference to the seed-beds in such a manner that 

 a maicimULi pressure may be obtained at all times. The beat 

 soil :>.ni aituation should then be laid out as a permanent 

 bed area. 



The cor.par "taients trill rotate naturally 



around three sub-divisions, - one-year-old seedlingr, tiro- 

 year-old seedlings and resting, - the basis being that an 

 acre in beds ;ill grow bet\7een four and five million seedlings, 

 oroadcast-sown. As saedlinga are delicite and very sensitive 

 to early and lat frosts, and to heaving from excessive soil 

 moieturc freezing, the area must be high and veil-drained even 

 at the expense of additional exporure which oan be rectified 

 artifici lly "by planting. If a uniform slope IB obtained by 

 grading to permit the rapid departure of flood water, although 

 care must be taken not to surface underlying coarse or inferior 

 textured coil, the value of the site ie greatly enhanced. It 

 ie immaterial if the seed-bed areas should be slightly remote 

 from the transplant grounds, as transportation corte of seed- 

 lings ar out n '.".]. . 



Transplant areas, like seed-bed sections, 

 return to resting for a year after being cropped. Therefore, 



