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Seven thousand five hundred trees from the nursery at Indian 

 Head were also set out on the Riding Mountain Forest Reserve at two 

 places, as experimental plantations, and have been doing very well 

 during the present year. Planting has not yet been considered neces- 

 sary in the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve, on account of the most 

 excellent natural reproduction. 



Forest Planting by the Canadian Pacific Railway* 



The planting work done by this Company has been mainly confined 

 to ornamental planting on station grounds, and the planting of trees 

 along certain portions of the right of way in prairie sections. The 

 object of the latter is to form windbreaks and thus do away with the 

 necessity for maintaining portable snow fences, the erection of which 

 has previously been necessary in order to prevent the drifting of snow 

 upon the track, and consequent interference with train trafHc. Con- 

 siderable progress in this work has been made by the Company's 

 Forestry Branch, Department of Natural Resources. 



Along the main line between Winnipeg, Man., and Calgary, Alta., 

 1,356,200 trees had been planted up to December, 19 12. These trees 

 were grown in the Company's nursery at Wolseley, Sask. The 

 species planted are Manitoba maple, Russian poplar, Cottonwood, 

 laurel leaf willow, red willow, golden willow, ash and spruce. Two 

 species of shrubs were also planted, caragana and artemisia. All 

 ,trees were two or three year old transplants, varying from thirty to 

 fifty inches in height. The loss and renewal has not exceeded ten per 

 cent. The trees were planted four feet apart in the rows and seven 

 feet between the rows, leaving a cultivated strip eight feet wide around 

 the plantation. 



A plantation of 25,000 tamarack was planted in the spring of 

 1908, near Wolseley, Sask. The object of this plantation was to de- 

 termine the feasibility of growing l^marack for fence posts and ties 

 on waste prairie land. Of this plantation, about 1,000 trees died the 

 first year. During 1910, 200 more died on account of late spring 

 frosts, and there are at present 23,800 tamarack in the plantation. 

 The following are the average of a number of measurements taken each 

 year : 



* Prepared from a statement by R. D. Prettie, Superintendent of Forestry, 

 C.P.R. Denartment of Natural Resources. 



