164 FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



The Salamanca Nursery will be increased by six acres, which have 

 already been purchased. This will give us 27.7 acres available for nursery 

 work the coining year located as follows: 



Saranac Nursery, Saranac Inn Station, N. Y 2.25 acres 



Forest Experiment Station, Saranac Inn Station, N. Y 4. 20 acres 



Lake Clear Nursery, Lake Clear Junction, N. Y 10. 25 acres 



Salamanca Nursery, Salamanca, N. Y 11.00 acres 



Five hundred seed boxes have been built or are in progress of con- 

 struction and will be ready for the coining spring work. These beds will 

 produce about five million seedlings. 



The Forest Preserve 



The Forest Preserve of this State consists of two parts, viz. : The 

 Adirondack Preserve and the Catskill Preserve, lying in the respective 

 mountain regions of this State. The Forest Preserve includes all lands 

 owned by the State in these localities, which is defined by law and reads as. 

 follows : ' The Forest Preserve shall include the lands owned or hereafter 

 acquired by the State within the county of Clinton, except the towns of 

 Altona and Dannemora, and the counties of Delaware, Essex, Franklin, 

 Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, 

 Warren, Washington, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan except 



1. Lands within the limits of any village or city, and 



2. Lands not wild lands acquired by the State on foreclosure of mort- 

 gages made to loan commissioners."* 



It should be borne in mind that there is a distinction between our 

 preserves and parks as used in this State, e. g., the Adirondack Preserve 

 includes all land owned by the Sta/te in the twelve Adirondack counties, 

 while the Adirondack Park is a smaller part, centrally located, defined by 

 law and shown on our maps by a blue line. Similarly for the Catskills. All 

 appropriations, with one exception, for the purchase of land have limited 

 such purchases to lands within the parks. Therefore we are compelled by 



Article V, section. 34, chapter 130 of the Laws of 190S. 



