Canadian Forestry Journal, Au^^nsi, ipi6 



673 



Quebec Limit Holders Extend Planting Idea 



The activities at the Berthierxille 

 Forest Nursery of the Quebec Gov- 

 ernment, under the direct charge of 

 Mr. G. C. Piche, continue to show 

 interesting developments. 



The Nursery has shipped this sea- 

 son over 380,000 plants of which 

 about 9 per cent were hardwoods 

 and the balance conifers. Three 

 hundred and forty-five thousand 

 plants were sold for reforestation 

 purposes and the remainder for 

 ornamental uses. The demand has 

 been multiplying year after year so 

 that it may be assumed the Quebec 

 Forest Nursery is only at the be- 

 ginning of its usefulness. 



The Laurentide Company at 

 Grand Mere have bought 240,000 

 plants, the Riordan Company have 

 also started experiments, and the 

 Bronson Company are taking sim- 

 ilar measures. It is anticipated that 

 next year several others of the limit 

 holders will come into line with the 

 planting movement and that several 

 thousand acres will be yearly re- 

 claimed. 



The experience of the Quebec 

 Forest Department is that the pri- 

 vate owners are rapidly awakening 

 to the possibilities of reforestation 

 and their demands for information, 

 seeds and plants are also increasing. 

 Mention mav be made of the Estate 

 of the Seigniory of Perthius that has 

 purchased 50,000 trees yearly from 

 Berthierville since 1912. Two Mont- 

 real barristers, Messrs. Fleet and 

 Lafleur have commenced the refor- 

 esting of their summer pro]Derties. 

 Numbers, of plants have been dis- 

 tributed to the colleges, convents, 

 and other institutions to promote 

 the establishments of small woodlots 

 nearby. 



One of the staff of the Forest 

 School of Laval, Mr. Maheu, de- 

 livered forestrv lectures in 14 col- 



leges, met over 3,500 students, and 

 375 instructors. This branch of lec- 

 ture work will be followed more ex- 

 tensively next year. 



The summer's work of Mr. Piche's 

 department was concerned also with 

 the classification of lands, which 

 was started in 1909, and it will re- 

 quire at least five years more to 

 complete the task. 



The Forestry School, under direc- 

 tion of Mr. Avila Bedard and Mr. 

 Piche will spend the summer 

 months on the limits of the River 

 Quelle Pulp and Lumber Company, 

 making inventories of stands, mark- 

 mg trees in view of trying several 

 systems of lumbering on forestry 

 principles. 



At the graduating exercises on 

 June 18th, the following received 

 their diplomas: Wm. Gua}^ Methot, 

 (/uillemette and Dufresne. Mr. 

 Guay left for Manitoba in charge of 

 a reconnaissance party for the Fed- 

 eral Government: Mr. Guillemette 

 is attached to the Forest Service of 

 the Province; Mr. Methot is spend- 

 ing the summer with the St. Mau- 

 rice Forest Protective Association, 

 and Mr. Dufresne has gone also to 

 help in forest protection work at 

 Mattagami, Ont. 



It is anticipated that a good num- 

 ber of students will enter in Sep- 

 tember. 



A View from Thessalon 



Thessalon, (3nt., "Advocate": In 

 the Province of Quebec no one is al- 

 lowed to set out fire for this purpose 

 unless he has a permit from a fire 

 warden. This is one of the manv 

 regulations that the Legislature of 

 Ontario should lose no time in 

 adopting. We trust it will not be 

 forgotten. 





