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plants last spring, and seventy-three seed beds were also sown in this 

 enclosure. The nursery contains stock as follows: 



White pine, 3-year-old transplants 459. I 34 



White pine, 4-year-old transplants 8 , 661 



White pine, 3-year-old transplants 2 , 480 



Scotch pine, 3-year-old transplants '■ 24 , 440 



Red pine, 3-year-old transplants 69,667 



Norway spruce, 3-year-old transplants 49 • 7 8 9 



Red spruce, 3-year-old transplants 60 , 255 



White pine, 3-year-old transplants 16, 176 



Total transplants 690 . 632 



White pine, 1 -year-old seedlings 400,000 estimated 



Red pine, 1 -year-old seedlings 100,000 estimated 



Scotch pine, 1 -year-old seedlings 120,000 estimated 



Four hundred and fifty thousand two-year-old white pine seedlings 

 were imported from Germany and rebedded in this nursery last spring. 



Private Planting. The appropriation bill of 1908 contained the 

 following clause: " For establishing additional nurseries for the propaga- 

 tion of forest trees to be furnished to citizens of the State at cost and planted 

 under directions and regulations of the Forest, Fish and Game Commis- 

 sion, and to be used in reforesting denuded and burned lands in the forest 

 preserve, ten thousand dollars ($10,000)." This law at once greatly 

 extended the work of this Department. Under authority of this act trees 

 were sold in 1908 as follows: 



