RAILROAD FORESTRY WORK 



How the Pennsylvania System Is Planning for a Permanent 



Timber Supply of Its Own 



[X C( >XTIXt'AXCK of its plans to The Pennsylvania Railroad this 

 provide for some of its future re- spring imported 2Oo,,ooo seedlings, 

 quirements in timher and cross-ties, made up of 150,000 Scotch pine, 25,000 

 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Kuropcan larch. 25.000 Xorway spruce, 

 has recently completed it- -pring for- 5,000 white pine, and 1,000 each of Se- 

 c-try planting for this year. Including quoia, Japanese larch, scarlet oak and 

 the permanent planting and the stock- Douglas fir. Some of these are not large 

 ing of the nursery, there \vas handled enough to be planted in their permanent 

 this spring a total of 625,000 young sites, and have been set out in transplant 

 trees. These make, up t< > the present rows in the new forest nursery estab- 

 time. 2.425,000 trees which have been lished this year by the company at Mor- 

 set out 1>\ the Pennsylvania Railroad ri-ville, 1'a., ju>t across the Delaware 

 since it undertook tree-planting upon a River from Trenton. Twelve acres 

 scientific and comprehensive scale have been carefully laid out there as 

 this constituting the largest forestry seed beds, transplant beds, and nursery 

 plan undertaken a- \et by any corpora- plots. Already the last-named contains 

 tion. 1.500000 red-oak seedlings, which have 



About 4'o,ooo of the .seedlings put come up from acorns put into the 



out this year were conifers, such as ground about April i. In addition to 



Scotch pine, white pine, and Norway the oaks, there are, in the nursery plots, 



spruce, and 168,000 were hardwoods, thrift}- seedlings growing up from five 



principally red oak. Xearly 75.000 of bushels of black walnut, ten bushels of 



the total were grown or handled in the chestnut, and 100 pounds of hickory 



company nursery at Hollidaysburg. nuts, which were sowed there. The 



The seed sown comprised 250 bushels seed beds have had sowed in them 



of acorns and nuts. 370 pounds of other twenty-six jx.nnds of Scotch pine, four- 



hardwo.Hl seeds, and seventy-five teen pounds of loblolly pine, five pounds 



pounds of conifer seeds. Three bun- of red pine, twenty pounds of European 



dred thousand seedlings were perma- larch. 250 pounds of black locust, and 



nently planted in land belonging to the smaller quantities of other seed, such as 



company. Xorway spruce, yellow poplar, hardy 



Economically to prosecute tree- catalpa, and bass. wood. Three hundred 



planting operations on so large a scale fifteen thousand little trees are in the 



necessitates at present the importation transplant rows, where they will receive 



of part of the plant material, because careful attention until large enough to 



European foresters, on account of the be planted out in their final site, 



degree of perfection to which they have The few trees mentioned above, 



brought their work, and the cheapness which are not primarily suitable for 



of labor, are able to supply certain for- timber production, are part of the stock 



e-t trees for less than they can be pur- in the nursery being grown for purposes 



chased at in America. This applies not of landscaping. The company has this 



only to native European species, such as year begun the propagation of ornamen- 



Scotch pine and European larch, but tal trees and plants for beautifying its 



also to our own trees, particularly property, and intends to develop a large 



white pine and Douglas fir. amount of shrubbery and hedges for the 

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