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ranging from 75 cents to $"<! 50 per pound. Hed or Norway Pine may be obtained 

 at prices ranging from $4.00 to $7.00 per pound. 



Seed beds are made four feet wide and thirty feet long, with a protective 

 covering as shown in Fig. I. This lath screen, giving half shade, is raised twelve 

 to eighteen inches above the beds, and is required to protect the seedlings from 

 tlie excessive summer heat. 



Seed may be sown in autumn, or in spring as soon as the growing season opens. 

 The seed may be sown broadcast or in rows. The method followed at the Norfolk 

 Nursery is to sow in rows about four inches apart. The depth of covering the 

 seed depends upon the nature of the soil. One-eighth to one-quarter of an inch 

 sliould be satisfactory, but this is largely a question of being able to keep moisture 

 at the surface during the germination of the seed. Evergreen seeds will take from 

 fifteen to twenty-four days to germinate. 



Fig. I. Showing view of seed-beds at the Provincial Forest Station, showing use of 



woven lath screen. 



The chief difficulties to be met are attacks by birds, as the plants are just show- 

 ing; sun scorch from allowing the ground to dry out too much or through lack of 

 sbade, and attacks of '"'daraping-off " fungus, which is often troublesome during 

 hot sultry weather when there is too much moisture in the soil. 



The seedlings are usually left in the seed-beds for two years. The protective 

 screens may be taken away at the end of the first season. At the end of the second 

 season tiie White Pine plants are three to five inches high and are ready for trans- 

 planting to nursery lines as shown in Fig. III. This transplating prepares the 

 plant for final planting, in that it produces a stocky plant with a compact root- 

 system, as shown in Fig. IV. 



In some eases the one or two-year old seedling is used for final forest planting 

 without this special preparation. For planting upon favorable soils, where protec- 

 tion exists and where the struggle is not too severe, the one-year old Scotch Pine 

 or the two-year old "White Pine seedling may be used. In much of the forest plant- 



