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Canadian Forestry Journal. 



Photo by A. Mitchell, 1908 

 General View of old Tree Claim Plantation near Morden, Man. 



Two of the other plantations ituated 

 in the vicinity of Morden are also re- 

 ported as doing well. In one of these 

 aspen alone was planted; in the other 

 aspen and Balm of Gilead in about 

 equal numbers. Where poplar alone 

 was used (in a plantation of four acres) 

 the average height attained, on moist 

 sandy loam, was 39 feet, average di- 

 ameter at two feet above the ground 5 J 

 inches. The trees here were set four by 

 twelve feet apart, and all the young 

 shoots and suckers kept out. 



In the other one of the plantations 

 referred to the trees had, on the average, 

 reached a height of 3 5 feet, and an 

 average diameter of four mches. The 

 trees were originally planted ten feet 

 apart each way. The number has since 

 increased and they now number about 



2,700 to the acre. No suckers were 

 ever cut out. The Balm of Gilead ap- 

 peared to have made the better growth. 

 This plantation consisted of eight acres 

 of sandy loam soil. 



A fourth plantation, eight acres in 

 size, on high sandy land, contained 

 aspen trees only, originally set four feet 

 apart each way. Here the average 

 height was only 28 feet, and the average 

 diameter at two feet above the ground 

 3^4 inches. This lot has been for years 

 used as a sheep pasture, and to this fact 

 is attributed the comparatively poor 

 showing it makes. 



On the lifth claim all trees had been 

 ploughed up and the ground planted 

 to wheat. 



