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continued scalping seems effective, and three years of this 

 treatment has not entirely cleaned the forest plats of them. 



Last spring the blanks in this plat were filled with yearling 

 ash trees, almost all of which have lived. The plat contains 

 208 larch trees, average height 15 in., tallest tree 4 ft. 6 in; and 

 529 box elders, average height 3 ft., tallest tree 10 ft. Total in 

 plat 737. 



PLAT 4. 



B B B B 

 P B Y B 

 B B B B 



Y B P B 



B Box Elder. 

 B- B B B P White Pine (Pinus strobus.) 



Y Yellow Birch (Betula lutca.} 

 P B Y B 



B B B B 

 Y B P B 



B B B B 



This plat illustrates more graphically than any other, the im- 

 portance of securing a good stand the first season. Six rows 

 crosswise of the plat were set with yearling box elders, direct 

 from a nursery, and in the next seventeen rows two-year-old box 

 elders that had been once transplanted, were used. In the first 

 six rows a very poor stand was secured, while of the two-year- 

 old trees less than a dozen failed. This may not indicate the 

 superiority of two-year-old trees so much, as it does the import- 

 ance of having the plants in the best condition at the time of 

 setting. The two-year-old trees were transferred from nursery 

 row in the experiment grounds direct to the plats, while the 

 yearlings were shipped in. The two-year-olds had much better 

 roots, however, and presumably were better able to make a vig- 

 orous growth at once. Thus far at the Station the most vigor- 

 ous seedlings have become more quickly established and have. 



