No. 4.] REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



301 



In order to assist any schools in a beginning, I am going to offer to a 

 limited extent, in so far as our seedlings hold out, and we can spare the 

 time to do the work, — first come, first served, — a collection of seed- 

 lings and seed as follows : — 



12 white pine seedlings, two years old. 

 24 white ash seedlings, two years old. 

 12 red spruce seedlings, two years old. 

 5 beech seedlings. 



£ ounce of white pine seed (900 seed). 

 12 chestnut seed. 

 25 acorn seed. 

 50 white ash seed. 



Bulletin No. 4 of this office, giving instructions for handling and care 

 of the nursery, will be sent with each order. 



The only expense to the school requesting this list will be the esti- 

 mated actual expense in digging, packing, etc., $1 for each collection. 

 The express charges will be advanced. Only one collection is offered a 

 school. The $1 should accompany the order. Should we be unable to 

 send the collection, the money will be returned. No orders should be 

 sent in to reach the office later than May 1. 



It is hoped that in this small beginning we may foster in the young, 

 our coming generation, not only a fundamental economic recognition of 

 forestry, but return to Massachusetts and New England the natural 

 beauty we all so much would love to see. 



Yours very sincerely, F. W. Rane, 



State House, Boston, Mass. 



In response to this offer forty-seven orders were received, and 

 sent out as indicated in the following table : — 



Fifteen thousand two-year-old white pine seedlings were pur- 

 chased from the New York State Forester and several thousand 



