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taken up the growing of nursery stock to a certain extent for the 
purpose of reforesting barren state-owned land, but to a greater 
extent with the idea of furnishing well-grown nursery trees to 
growing conifers are the most widely used trees for the reason 
that coniferous timber is more in demand and easier to grow on 
short rotation. During the past year the five nurseries operated 
by the State Conservation Commission in New York state pro- 
duced more than 8,000,000 trees. 
t is not an easy thing to say just when a crop of planted trees 
will be ready to cut at a good profit. In searching for actual 
at questions we must take the experience of European 
foresters, discounting it in order to provide for the difference in 
site ctors, or we must ma easurements on the 
Some ee which are fast growing and are recommended 
for planting throughout the East are red pine, Scotch pine and 
orway spruce. Among the hardwoods whic 
for planting are red oak, white ash, green ash, Carolina poplar, 
black locust and basswood. 
In the last few years one of the best trees for planting, the 
white pine, has been attacked by the white pine blister rust, a 
destructive disease which came to us from the domain of ‘‘Kul- 
tur’’ some years ago. Vast amounts of money have been spent 
n an endeavor to control this disease by means of destroying the 
white pine is doomed because of the excessive cost and difficulty 
of securing thorough work in the destruction of this temporary 
host 
