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10,000 I year white spruce 

 10,000 I year hemlock 



Basswood has also been planted. 



This Company expects to have a production from its nursery of 

 about 200,000 trees per year, and will continue its experiments with 

 other foreign conifers and also plant various hardwoods, chiefly to sup- 

 ply its Landscape Department with ornamental trees. 



Waste lands now owned by the Company are being planted 

 and this work will be carried out on a much larger scale. The object of 

 this work is to produce a supply of wood material, to be used in the man- 

 ufacture of pulp and paper in the Company's plant at Grand'Mere, 

 supplementing the extensive areas of virgin forest on the Company's 

 timber limits on the St. Maurice river. 



The Forestry Department has a farm of two hundred acres, about 

 one-third covered with hemlock and hardwood, which will be cut 

 according to various sUvicultural methods, and the cleared land will be 

 planted with the species best suited to the soU. 



A tract of four square miles is about to be acquired for sUvicul- 

 tural experimental work, where the effect of different methods of cut- 

 ting can be studied on a large scale. 



So far, Norway spruce has shown itself a very satisfactory tree. 

 The three-year-old stock, seedling, averages nine to ten inches in height, 

 the three-year-old transplants about seven inches, and the one-year- 

 old seedlings about four inches. The 'growth is much more rapid than 

 that of the white spruce and the trees more vigorous. The Norway 

 spruce set out in plantations has a much smaller percentage of loss than 

 the white spruce and grows better both in the open and when under- 

 planted. 



Forest Planting in the Maritime Provinces 



On account of the excellent natural reproduction which generally 

 follows lumbering operations and fires, the necessity for artificial 

 planting has not made itself strongly felt in the provinces of New 

 Brunswick and Nova Scotia. This situation is emphasized by the fact 

 that cut-over lands well stocked with young growth can be purchased 

 at a less cost per acre than would be required to restock artificially. 

 It is probable also that a large percentage of the farms are either par- 

 tially in woodland or are st:iificiently close to forest areas, so that the need 

 for home-grown wood supplies has not yet been felt to a material 

 extent. The Provincial Governments have accordingly not as yet 

 tmdertaken a definite campaign for the encouragement of tree- 

 planting. 



Undoubtedly, however, planting is desirable under some condi- 

 tions, although the need is much greater at the present time for adequate 



