REGENERATION BY PLANTING SEEDLINGS. 67 



way of securing a stock of coniferous trees upon the land. 

 Under the conditions which frequently prevail on our cut-over 

 land there is very little chance for natural or artificial regenera- 

 tion of desirable kinds by seed, owing to the fact that all the 

 seed-producing trees were cut when the land was logged, or 

 have since been destroyed by fire and the ground covered by a 



Figure 9. Old pine cuttings after being once burned over. 



growth of weeds and inferior trees; but seedling pines can often 

 be set out at intervals of perhaps ten feet apart each way where 

 they would be sufficiently crowded by the weeds, poplar and 

 other fast growing trees, so that they would take on an upright 

 form quite free from side branches until their tops interlaced, 

 after which they would crowd one another. Such planting can 

 be done here at an expense of about five dollars per acre. It 

 is necessary for the success of such work that weeds be pre- 

 vented from smothering the trees, which they are liable to do 



