MODERN FORESTRY 



serve, over one million plants of different 

 coniferous species being set out. Most of the 

 stock for this work came from nurseries which 

 are maintained by the Forestry Department. 

 But, as this supply was insufficient, the com- 

 mission imported three hundred and fifty 

 thousand white pine plants from a commercial 

 nursery in Halstenbek, Germany. 



It is the intention of the Department to 

 continue this work each year, and increase its 

 reforesting operations so far as the nurseries 

 can supply the young stock. At present the 

 capacity of the nurseries is insufficient for the 

 proposed work; but new ones will be estab- 

 lished as soon as appropriations can be obtained 

 for that purpose. 



The only thing Texas is doing with respect 

 to its forests is in supporting a brief course 

 of instruction in forestry at the state university, 

 while the head of the school of botany is pur- 

 suing investigations into forest resources and 

 various forest questions with relation to Texas, 

 and publishing results of these investigations, 

 with a view to creating general interest in for- 

 estry matters. Private interests are more or 

 less taken up in one phase or another of for- 



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