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besides other operations, the continual care for replant- 

 ing areas which have been denuded either by accidents 

 (fire) or elemental forces (storms, snoAv) or by the natu- 

 ral course of tree life. Of the i^resent State forest pre- 

 serve there are several hundred thousands of acres of 

 woodlands, which have been stripped in such a manner 

 that they forever are doomed to weeds and brambles 

 unless the helping hand of man is enlisted into service 

 for restocking them. Many of these tracts may be re- 

 forested by a geaieral cultivation and seeding down with 

 the seeds of trees adapted to soil and location, but there 

 will remain many places which cannot be redeemed 

 from their desolate condition unless planted with seed- 

 lings, and sometimes with such ones as have been once 

 transplanted in the nursery. It is true that wherever 

 large tracts are to bo planted the nursery should be 

 located in the midst, or at least near the tract to be 

 operated on. But this would not exclude the advisa- 

 bility of creating a j)rincipal station for general nursery 

 purposes. For this institute has not only the care of 

 raising seedlings and disseminating the knowledge of 

 improved methods of forest planting, but also of col- 

 lecting the seeds of forest trees grown in the Adiron- 

 dacks, and of preserving the collected seeds till the 

 time arrives when they will be made use of. Sometimes 

 it may not be avoidable to buy tree seed from seed- 

 dealers. But it goes without saying that, to owners of 

 large forests, the most approved way of restocking their 

 denuded wood plots is to take the collection of seeds in 

 their own hands, although this operation is a tedious 

 one, and not infrequently more expensive than to buy 

 the seed from the dealers. 



II. A Forest School would be another institution to be 

 established upon the privileged grounds of a Forest Park. 



