Ontario Government Xursery Stutton 



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Tins yi'ur one ot lli.- rlnsjif* ul tli*- 

 Faculty of Forestry of tht* I'niviT- 

 Nity of Toronto. uikIi-:" Dr. H. E. 

 Fernow. Dean, and Dr. ('. D. II(»\v«'. 

 one of tli<' h'cturt'rs. sjM'nt a w»'««k 

 in llif plantation and nurscrirs. Tin- 

 time of tln' Mtndents was divided be- 

 tween studying the tree types in the 

 remaining stretehes of forest, observ- 

 ing: th«' work in the nursery, and in 

 practical tests of phintinj;. so as to 

 ae(|uirc familiarity with the various 

 tools used, and to arrive at a deei- 

 sien at first hand as ti» the best me- 

 thods in the various soils. 



The students spent a i)rotitable 

 week. This county is in the heart 

 of the area that was covered with 

 the hardwood forest of south-west- 

 ern Ontario, one of the best northern 

 hardwood forests in the world. Dr. 

 Fernow, of course, knew what trees 

 to expect to find in the remaining 

 stands, Imt he expressed himself as 

 surprised at the i)roportion of the 

 forest consisting of black gum (Nys- 

 sa silvatica). chestnut, hickory, wal- 

 nut, and tulip (Liriodendron tulipi- 

 fera). Specimens of practically all 

 trees to be found in Canada, outsid* 

 of British Cohnnbia. are to be found 

 here. The students thus, naturally, 

 spent a good- part of the time in the 

 woods becoming acciuainted with 

 trees new to them, while the remain- 

 der of the period was spent in tlie 

 l)lantations and nursery. A number 

 of seed-beds were made and sown, 

 and seedlings were transplanted in- 

 to nursery rows. In the latter work 

 a German planting nmchine was test- 

 ed for the first time on this con- 

 tinent. With certain slight modifica- 

 tions it was believed it will do good 

 work. 



In the plantations a careful exam- 

 ination was made to see the propor- 

 tion of successful trees of the vari- 

 ous kinds set out. and then ore day 

 was given to planting 2,500 trees in 

 a field partly covered with coarse 

 grass and partly of blowintr sand. 

 The boys here for the first time be- 

 came familiar with a lot of odd- 



looking tools, hoes, HiattoekH. Hpadet 

 and dibbles, which they had seen in 

 the forestry museum at Toronto, but 

 which some of them had not associ- 

 ated with practical work in this 

 country. Kach tool was tried by 

 each of the students and at the end 

 of tlie day they were most of them 

 in favor of the broad mattock as the 

 most rapid tool for large seedlings. 

 Though the work by a lot of men, 

 'soft' from indoor work all winter, 

 brought bli.sters and aching muscles 

 they were convinced it was worth 

 while, and it is likely for a number 

 of reasons that the visit of forestry 

 students to St. Williams will be a 

 fre(|uent one. 



The Secretary of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association soent thre;- 

 days at the '>lantation and on one 

 of the evenings gave a talk to the 

 boys on what he had seen in his trip 

 to the I'nited States. 



Abaiidoiicil luniiestoixl on Ontariu liovcrn- 



inent Xurserv, Norfolk Co. 



(See* p. 58.) 



FOBESTBT TERMS. 



Writers on the sabject of forestry would 

 ilo well to note the interrelation between 

 four words which are often inacrurately 

 used. Land covered by forest is 'de- 

 forested* when it is cleared; land that 

 never grew a forest is 'afforested' when 

 it is made to grow one; land that has 

 been cleared of one forest is 'reforested' 

 when it is made to produce another; and 

 land that has been 'afforested' once is 

 * reafforested * when it is a second time 

 planted. The term ' reafforested * is used 

 very often when ' reforested ' would be the 

 correct word. 



— Toronto Globe. 



