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The following reports have been received at this office in regard to 

 plantations made with this stock. 



Hon. E. A. Merritt, Jr., of the Hannawa Falls Power Company: "The 

 trees planted last spring have done splendidly; very few died, and the 

 balance are thriving." 



Hon. Frederick C. Stevens: " The trees were inspected late last fall 

 and it was found that out of the entire planting (1,200) only 10 have died; 

 the others were in a very healthy condition. The planting was, therefore, 

 entirely satisfactory." 



Mr. Alexander Orr, Superintendent of the Gloversville Water Works: 

 11 In regard to the 10,000 trees set out last spring I consider that we had 

 exceptional!}- 7 good luck with the same. Just before the snow came I was 

 over the entire lot and counted only 26 blank spots. They were then 

 looking fine. Some of them showed a growth of from 6 to 9 inches and 

 none of them less than 2 inches. The exceedingly dry condition of the past 

 summer no doubt held many of them back, but they all showed a good, 

 healthy condition." 



Hon. Melvil Dewey, President of the Lake Placid Club: " 2,000 trees 

 were planted, the) 7 have made a vigorous growth and are well budded for 

 the coming year. The loss was only 27 trees." 



Hon. J. S. Whipple: " Planted 1,200 trees at Salamanca last spring and 

 1,188 of these were alive last fall." 



Heretofore our planting operations had been confined to the reforesting 

 of denuded, burned lands owned by the State in the Adirondacks. This 

 law extended the tree planting work to reforesting private lands. In addi- 

 tion to the work of distribution it has been necessary to secure data as to 

 the conditions under which the trees were to be planted in order to elim- 

 inate failures as far as possible. For this purpose the following blank was 

 prepared and all who desired trees were supplied with a copy which they 

 were requested to fill out and sign before their application could be acted 

 upon. 



