Canadian Forestry? Journal 



Vol. VII. 



Ottawa, May-Junb. 191 1 



No. 3 



Ontario Government Nursery Station. 



With the ineroa.sinir gravity of the 

 prohlcm of dealing with thi» sand 

 land areas in tlio ohlor .si'ttlcd part.s 

 of the province of Ontario the im- 

 portance of tlie Ontario Government 

 Nursery 8tation increases. For a 

 pood many years the Government 

 supplied from the nurseries con- 

 nected with the Ontario Ajrricultural 

 CoUege at Guelph trees to farmers 

 to restore their woodlots. More ag- 



gressive action was taken three 

 years ago, when the Department of 

 Agriculture purchased some farms 

 in the sand lauds area of Norfolk 

 county, and Professor E. .1. Zavitz. 

 forester to the Department, was au- 

 thorized to move the forest nurseries 

 from Guelph to the new station at 

 St. Williams, and to begin the plant- 

 ing of these farms with trees suited 

 to the loenlitv. The itlea of tht- offi- 



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