INTRODUCTION. 



The State Forester has been anxious to place in the hands 

 of our people some definite information on forest nursery and 

 reforestation work. It is believed that this bulletin will meet 

 the requirements. 



Nearly every farm in Massachusetts in fact, in New Eng- 

 land has its woodlot, or some land suited only to the growing 

 of trees. In most cases such land has been wholly or partly 

 cut off or burned over, and left as barren, worthless tracts, an 

 unsightly addition to the rest of the property. 



It is the purpose of this bulletin to set forth a remedy which 

 will bring these waste and denuded lands back into forest 

 growth, and provide a method to keep them in a condition to 

 be a source of revenue to the owner at a very small outlay. If, 

 when a woodlot is cut off, provision is made for restocking it, 

 either by natural reproduction, as the leaving of seed trees, 

 or by replanting it with nursery-grown stock, much headway will 

 be made towards bringing the waste lands of Massachusetts 

 back into forest growth. 



Nursery work and that of reforestation go hand in hand 

 though two entirely separate undertakings. It is from the 

 nursery that the young trees are furnished to be used on land 

 to be restocked. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The work of writing and compiling the data in this bulletin 

 was intrusted to Mr. R. S. Langdell, my assistant, who has 

 for the past three years been devoting his energies to carrying 

 on the nursery work at Amherst, and furthering the reforesta- 

 tion work throughout the State. 



F. W. KANE, 



State Forester. 

 BOSTON, MASS., March 1, 1910. 



