for this species, did not do well. The plants live, but 

 the growth and foliage both indicate a severe struggle. 

 Whether they will improve with time is impossible to 

 foretell. 



The cotton wood was largely a failure in the field, 

 chiefly due to poor quality of plant stock. Those 

 planted in nursery fared somewhat better. 



In the nursery the black locust made a fine growth 

 and fully demonstrated what it can do. The nursery- 

 was intended to serve several purposes, but princi- 

 pally to furnish larger plants for special cases and to 

 check the field plantations by showing, in close com- 

 pass, what the different species may be expected to do 

 in this region. 



In the seed beds, as in the plantation, chief atten- 

 tion is paid to white pine and other species whose value 

 for these pinery lands is beyond question. 



Thus far twenty-five species of trees are represented 

 here, namely: 



White pine, Norway pine, Scotch pine, Jack pine, 

 Western yellow pine, pitch pine, sugar pine, nut pine, 

 Western white pine, Norway spruce, white spruce, 

 blue spruce, Sitka spruce, white cedar, Western arbor 

 vitae, silver fir, balsam, hemlock, Deodar cedar, 

 cryptomeria, big tree, catalpa, black locust, honey 

 locust, walnut. 



Most of these trees are well known, a few need some 

 explanation. The Scotch pine is used here because of 

 its enormous range throughout the north of Europe 

 and its frugal habits on the poorest of sands, would 

 indicate it to be a valuable tree for this region. The 

 Western yellow pine is a tree common all over the 

 West, except portions of the west and northwest of 

 Oregon and Washington. It is a tree of hot and cold 

 districts, of dry and moist localities and seems to get 

 on with a great variety of soils. Pitch pine, the small 

 pine of the North Atlantic coast, notably New Jersey, 

 also is a tree of poor sandy soils and may possibly 

 prove of some value. The sugar pine and Western 

 white pine resemble our own white pine in size, growth 

 and wood and may possibly prove of value. The 

 Norway spruce, white and Sitka spruce have all 

 proved their worth in the forest districts of North Ger- 

 many, and the Norway spruce has been demonstrated 

 by Dr. Beal's experiments at Grayling to make good 

 growth. The Western white cedar, the Deodar, a 

 native of Judea, and the cryptomeria, the common 

 Japanese timber cedar, are all trees of good growth, 

 good size, fine wood, and used to rugged climate, so 

 that these, too, may prove valuable. 



The catalpa and locusts are intended for quick pro- 

 ducers of small timber, post and tie material. The 

 Trig tree is tried here as a curiosity as well as experi- 

 ment. Should it thrive it could not possibly be ex- 

 celled for growth or value of timber. 



Generally the plants have done well. There has 

 been but a little damping off among the pines; the 

 Scotch and white, Norway and pitch pine sown in 

 1904 are ready to go out next spring. The spruce 

 needs one more year in seed bed. Catalpa and black 

 locust did well, honey locust came up sparingly. All 

 three are ready for the field. Walnut planted in 1903 

 is still small and with little promise. All conifers are 

 raised under screens; the hardwoods without. Of 

 screens various forms are used. Large 4x12 feet 

 screens were largely used in 1904; this year mostly 

 lighter frames were" made ; the spruce were grown un- 

 der overhead screens with bush cover. A pump with 

 windmill and tank erected in the nursery this spring 

 has saved almost its entire cost in the first year, the 

 watering being more regular and satisfactory and 

 cheap. A conservative estimate places the number 



