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tending nearly the whole width of the farm from the highway back to- 

 ward the steep hill against which the farm halts. There are s rows of 

 trees, spaced lo x lo ft. apart. The soil is a sandy loam overlying 

 gravel, which out-crops in places. It is a first-class agricultural soil 

 and has, therefore, probably produced better results than could be 

 expected from the average forest soil. It was cultivated before plant- 

 ing. The object of planting was to ascertain if eastern hardwoods 

 are hardy in British Columbia. The matter was viewed and approached 

 from the standpoint of a horticulturist, rather than from that of a forester. 

 No specific record was kept of what species were planted in the 

 shelter belt, but the following are now to be observed : 



Hardwoods 



Quglans nigra Linn.) 



(Populus balsamifera Linn.) 



(Betula alba var papyrifera.) 



(Betvila lutea Michx.) 



(Fagus sp. — — .) 



(Castanea dentata [Marsh.] Borkh.) 



(Quercus robur. L. ) 



Black Wahiut 



Balsam Poplar 



White Birch 



Yellow Birch 



Purple Beech 



Chestnut 



Oak 



Elm 



Tulip 



Sycamore 



Cherry 



Hard Maple 



Soft Maple 



Norway Maple 



Basswood 



White Ash 



Catalpa 



(Uhnus americana Linn.) 

 (Liriodendron tulipifera Linn.) 

 (Platanus occidentaUs Linn.) 

 (Prunus serotina Ehrh.) 

 (Acer saccharum Marsh.) 

 (Acer saccharum Linn.) 

 (Acer platanoides.) 

 (Tilia americana Linn.) 

 (Fraxinus americana Liim.) 

 (Catalpa sp. .) 



Softwoods 



White pine 

 Jack Pine 

 Scotch Pine 

 Mugho Pine 

 European Larch 



(Pinus strobus Linn.) 

 (Pinus divaricata Ait.) 

 (Pinus sylvestris) 

 (Pinus Mugho) 

 (Larix Europea) 



The species in planting were apparently mixed promiscuously, 

 with no regard to their respective qualities of tolerance, rapidity of 

 growth, etc. Nearly all did well for a nimiber of years until they 

 began to crowd. Then the intolerant ones, with the exception of those 

 individuals which managed to keep on top by rapid height growth, 

 began to suffer from shading. To-day some of them are dead (notice- 

 ably nearly all the jack pine and many of the Scotch pine) and others 



