FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 1 53 



Pinus monticola, 2-year-old seedlings 130 



Pinus lambertiana, 2 -year-old seedlings 364 



Larix europea, 2-year-o d seedlings . . . '. 5 , 005 



Abies balsamea, 2-year-old seedlings 8 , 632 



Abies concolor, 2 -year-old seedlings .' 1,378 



Picea alba, 2-year-old seedlings 23 , 803 



Picea excelsa, 2-year-old seedlings 77 , 701 



Total 266 , 906 



All planting set at spacing of four inches in rows and six inches between 

 the rows, in beds forty feet long and containing approximately 1,000 plants. 

 All of the above named species made a fine development in the seed beds 

 and have made a good growth during the past summer. 



In connection with the Experiment Station some planting was done 

 in that locality in open fields and under second growth forest in order that 

 it might be more carefully observed. The small patches were planted with 

 two-year-old Scotch pine seedlings in the spring of 1907. The purpose 

 was to show whether or not they were strong enough for field planting. A 

 few hundred were planted under a dense growth of brakes, while the others 

 were planted under thick tall second growth poplars with an under growth 

 of brakes. They have made an extra fine growth, and very satisfactory. 

 This is surely convincing that ordinary three-year-old Scotch pine trans- 

 plants are large enough for ordinary field work. 



In 1907 a very interesting experiment was started. A large number 

 of one-year-old seedlings were pulled up in the dense parts of the one-year- 

 old beds. Before pulling the ground was saturated with water in order to 

 make it loose so that as few fine roots as possible would be broken off. In 

 this experiment the following number and kinds were planted : 



Bull pine (pinus ponderosa) 5 , 000 



Red pine (pinus resinosa) 7 , 300 



Scotch pine (pinus sylvestris) 12, 000 



The loss in transplanting was too small to be counted. The remainder 

 of the beds were kept until two years old and transplanted the past spring. 

 It is interesting to note the difference now when they are three years old. 



