ORLEANS 



Orleans is the only toira on the Gape that has "been 

 fortunate enough to have had two individuals who, fifty years 

 ago becajne interested enough in forestry to experiment ?.dth 

 planting. They planted pitch pine, T^hite pine, red pine, 

 Scotch pine and larch and chestnut. These two individuals 

 were John Kendricks and Sylvanus Hopkins. In 1876 John 

 Kendricks bought larch seedlings from Wisconsin, purchased 

 Scotch pine seed, while he bought white pine seedlings, as 

 well as white pine seed from Plymouth County. In addition to 

 this they dug up pitch pine seedlings and set them out in the 

 hills of corn, so that today we mej see the ridges which vexe 

 formerly the rows of corn. All of these species have grown 

 to merchantable size s.nd sho?/ that these various species are 

 able to do very well on Cape Cod. The chestnut ?;as killed by 

 the blight, but the sprouts are coming back and we a.re of the 

 opinion the^t some time in the future chestnut may thrive on 

 the Cape as well as in other parts of the State. 



Sylvanus Hopkins planted his plantation of white pine 

 end Scotch pine on the road from East Orleans to Tonset. He, 

 like lir. Kendricks, plE.nted his seed in corn hills. He also 

 planted red spruce, ?jhite spruce, maple, grey birch and catalpa, 

 more for experimental purposes than for a timber stand. All of 

 these species are growing very vjell considering the type of soil. 

 Pitch pine is the predominating type, covering 70fo of the forest 

 area of the tovrn, but it is in the small size class end will 

 probably not amount to a great dea.l. Others owning land in Orleans 

 ca.n very well follow the example set by John Kendricks and Sylvanus 



