Experience in Pine Planting 



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VL\E rLAML\G OA THE NORFOLK SAXP I'LALXS. 



The seedlings shown in the picture were transplanted from the Government nurseries and are not 

 only establishing the species in a district where the pine once attained large dimensions, but are holding 

 the sand from blowini;. 



Experience in Pine Planting 



Many small plantations under cultivation. Nursery stock able to 



withstand conditions in open 



Tn scvtM-al parts of Eastern Canada 

 at the present time, private experi- 

 ments in the planting of white pine 

 spruce and other seedlings are being 

 conducted. In some of these experi- 

 ments the seedlings have been trans- 

 ferred direct from the forest to tlieir 

 permanent location and the results 

 have given, so far as reported, only 

 indifft'rt'nt satisfaction. 



PLxiX'ricnce has shown that pine or 

 other seedlings are the better for nur- 

 turing one year or more in the nurs- 

 ery row. the transplanting having the 

 effect of bundling the roots together 

 thereby equipping the plant to meet 

 the test of harsher conditions. The 

 pine seedlings taken from the Norfolk 

 County nurseries and placed on abso- 

 lute sand land have done exceedingly 

 well. It has been found, however, 

 that in most cases the voung seed- 



lings taken direct from the shelter 

 and moisture of the forest will not 

 readily adapt themselves to a sandy 

 field possessing no shelter and devoid 

 of otlier nurturing factors. 



Tile Canadian Forestry Journal is 

 in recepit of a statement by a Penn- 

 sylvanian much interested in forest 

 reproduction. Some years ago he 

 ti'ied j)lanting a number of evergreen 

 .species (white i)iiie, liemloek. wliite 

 spruce, Canada balsam, Frazer's fir) 

 on slopes already timbered with de- 

 ciduous trees. With the exception of 

 the hemlock (a shade enduring 

 species) the result was disappointing. 

 Most of the trees planted in the open 

 survived, but those placed under 

 other trees fared badly. In 1902, he 

 purchased 2.000 white pines from a 

 nursery in Illinois and planted them 

 in an open school garden. They re- 



