Canadian Forestry Journal, September, ipij. 



187 



The forest nursery beds at St. Williams are independent of rain- 

 fall. View shows the sprays at work on the hardwoods. The streams 

 may be adjusted to any angle. 



A MODEL TREE NURSERY 



When a magician produces from 

 an empty hat a pair of rabbits, and 

 half a wardrobe, he is given credit 

 by many folks with defying the laws 

 of vision and upsetting gravity. It 

 is only within the last few years that 

 those Canadians even slightly ac- 

 quainted with forest conditions ad- 

 mitted the possibility of planting up 

 barren tracts. They believed in it 

 only as an experiment offering occu- 

 pation and instruction to professors 

 and students of forestry schools. 

 But as a dividend payer, as a busi- 

 ness proposition challenging atten- 

 tion from municipalities and farmers 

 with waste land in their possession, 

 a good many people turned it aside 

 as an interesting riddle good enough 

 for the juggler's platform and for no 

 other place. 



While private effort has done 

 something in the way of forest nur- 

 series and planting up of sandy or 

 rocky lands, to bring them again to 



their original crops of timber, it 

 necessarily required the resources 

 and stability of provincial govern- 

 ments to carry such undertakings to 

 success. Quebec has done excellent 

 work on the sand plains of Lachute 

 fas described in the August "Jour 

 nal"), and the nurseries at Berthier 

 ville. The Editor paid a visit on 

 September 14th to the Ontario Gov- 

 ernment nurseries and plantations 

 near St. Williams, Ont. (Norfolk 

 County) a part of the country highly 

 favorable to growth, as is 'testified 

 by the productivity of the fruit 

 farms and the presence of such tree 

 species as the Sassafras, Tulip, 

 Black Gum, Walnut, etc. 



1800 Acres Under Care. 



The first impression of the Gov- 

 ernment Nurseries in Norfolk is of 

 extremely tidy appearance and busi- 

 ness-like, economical planning. 

 With the sand lands taken over from 



