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feet, for the Scotch pine of eight to 

 ten feet and for the jack pine of 

 twelve to fourteen feet. 



An Improved Nursery. 



In the winter of 1910-11 a trip to 

 the more important forest and nur- 

 sery stations in Norway, Sweden, 

 Germany, France, Austria and 

 Switzerland confirmed me in mv 



raised at all above the level of the 

 surrounding- ground, we use no wire 

 screens or burlap over the beds and 

 we do not plant broadcast. Mr. 

 Arnold Hannsen, who is in charge 

 of this work, has discovered that 

 most of the conifers do better if 

 planted in the fall ; they germinate 

 early in the spring and show a 

 larger germination per cent, and 



Scotch pine planted in 1908 on steep clay bank with south-west exposure. 



Ontario grown stock. 



views and in the spring of 1911 a 

 very small nursery was started 

 which has since been enlarged each 

 year and will next year have a cap- 

 acity of 1,000,000 trees per year. In 

 the beginning we modelled our work 

 on the New York State Nursery at 

 Lake Clear Junction under Mr. 

 Pettis, New York State Forester, 

 but our experiments have led us to 

 depart quite widely from that prac- 

 tice so as to meet local climatic con- 

 ditions. We do not surround our 

 beds with planks, they are hardly 



seem to be less sensitive to damping 

 off, this is most marked wath white 

 pine which gains practically a year's 

 growth by being sowed in the fall. 

 We find the Norway Spruce a much 

 easier tree to raise from seed than 

 any other spruce that we have tried. 

 It germinates better, the growth is 

 more rapid and the trees hardy. 

 White spruce germinates poorly and 

 for the first two years grows very 

 slowly. Balsam shows the same re- 

 sults. All the native pines are easy 

 to raise and show good results and 



