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building. Here the sun, hot winds and supply of 

 rain could be controlled. 



A pound of Norway Spruce seeds will sow a 

 strip about 4 feet wide by 20 in length and will be 

 about 58,000 seeds. 



The following table compiled by Mr. Douglass 

 will give the number of different seeds to the 

 pound, and will be a guide in sowing: 



SPRUCES (ABIES). 

 A. Normanniana, Nordmans fir ....................... 8,000 



A. Pectinata, Common silver fir ....................... 8,000 



A. Pichta, Siberian silver fir ........................... 40,000 



A. Fraseri, Frasers Balsam fir .......................... 43,000 



A. Canadensis, Hemlock spruce ..................... 100,000 



A. Excelsa, Norway spruce .............................. 58,000 



A. Alba,, White spruce ................................... 160,000 



A. Concolor, Colorado spruce ......................... 



Picea pungens, Colorado blue or "silver" spruce..! 10, 000 

 Pseudotsuga Douglassii, Douglass spruce ......... 45,000 



CEDAR. 



C. Atlantica, African Cedar ............................ 7,000 



PINES (PINUS). 



P. Cembra, Cembran pine ................................ 2,700 



P. Strobus, White pine ................................... 20,000 



P. Austriaca, Austrian pine ............................. 28,000 



P. Silvestris, Scotch pine ............................. 69,000 



P. Laricio, Corsicanpine ................................. 33,000 



P. Rigida, Pitch pine ...... , w ............................ 66,000 



P. Pinaster, Sea side pine ................................ 12,000 



P. Ponderosa, Yellow pine .............................. 16,000 



L,arix Europa, European Larch ....................... 70,000 



ARBORVIT^ o. (THUJA). 

 T. Occidentallis, American arborvitoe .............. 320,000 



ARBORVIT^ ORIENTAUJS (BIOTA O.) 



Biota Occidentallis ......................................... 33,000 



PEAR. 

 Common seeds ............................................. 12,000 



ADBle.... ...................................... 12,000 



