No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



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Forest Nursery. 

 The State forest nursery at Amherst will have ahout 2,000,000 

 two-year-old white pine seedlings fit for planting next spring. 

 A large part of them should be transplanted in the nursery, 

 if arrangement can be made for sufficient ground. Last spring 

 we were able to use about 900,000 in the reforestation work, 

 and transplanted at the nursery 250,000, that we might have 

 trees which when planted in the most exposed places will grow 

 sucessfully. We have also a good stand of one-year-old white 

 pine and Norway spruce. The following table gives the esti- 

 mated stock on hand at the nursery : — 



Variety, 



White pine seedlings. 

 White pine seedlings. 

 Pitch pine seedlings. 

 Pitch pine seedlings, 

 Norway pine seedlings, . 

 Austrian pine seedlings, . 



No. of Trees. 



2,000,000 

 2,500,000 

 25,000 

 25,000 

 5,000 

 20,000 



