In addition to the hardwoods the plat contains 147 Populns 

 certinensis and 47 evergreens, which have been set in blanks. Of 

 the conifers the principal species used is '.Finns ponderosa, set 

 last spring, and hence only established. A larger per cent of it 

 has lived after transplanting than any other conifer tried at the 

 station. 



Total trees in plat 1247. 



THE SEEDLING PLAT. 



In this plat, containing 2 acres, 49 rods, fourteen varieties of 

 forest tree seeds were planted in the fall of 1887. The follow- 

 ing varieties survive: walnut, black wild cherry, green ash, 

 box elder, hard maple (acer saccharum). The plat is high 

 ground with a northern exposure, and but little snow lodged in 

 it last winter. The hard maple and walnut were measurably 

 protected by the snow, but the cherry, ash and box elder were 

 practically without protection. The cherry killed back but very 

 little. The ash came through the winter without injury, but 

 the box elder was badly injured, in many cases all the growth of 

 the previous season was killed. The tallest box elder in the plat 

 is 9 ft. 6 in. high, average height 6 ft. 6 in., average growth for 

 the year 3 ft. Compared with the oldest box elders in plat 1 10, 

 which were brought when one year old in the spring of 1888, 

 grown one year in nursery rows and then transplanted to their 

 present position, the seedlings of '87 are not so large, but they 

 average better than the yearling trees that were set in the other 

 plats in '89. 



The green ash trees in this plat average 4 ft. 3 in. high, the 

 tallest being 7 ft. 2 in., and the average growth for the year 16 

 inches. The ash trees number several hundred, and they are all 

 in fine condition. 



The hard maples are few in number and have made but little 

 growth, tta tallest being 12J inches hisrh. Cherry and walnut 

 are about equal in size and growth to the same species grown 

 in the forest plantation. 



In 1889 and again in 1890 the blanks in this plantation were 

 filled in with box- elder, elm, certinensis popalar, laurel leaved 

 willow, birch, Norway popular (P. tremuloides ?} and Scotch 



