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In co-operation with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, investigations were conducted to find some 

 remedy for " damping off." We expect after another season to be able to 

 make a final report. 



Last September 2,000 Siberian larch, three-year transplants, and 

 3,000 Japanese larch, three-year transplants, were supplied free to the 

 Great Bear Spring Company, of Oswego, N. Y., under an agreement that 

 thev would pay expenses of transportation and planting, but we were to 

 have the use of all information regarding the adaptability and growth of 

 these species. 



A series of experiments are now being conducted to test the use of 

 various fertilizers on seedlings and transplants in this nursery. 



Excellent results have been secured by the judicious use of water on 

 our seed beds. It is now too soon to make a full statement in regard to 

 the work. 



During the coming year experiments will be conducted with chemical 

 weed killers, hoping by this means to reduce the expense of weeding. 



An effort has been made to grow osiers at this nursery. One of the 

 large willow baskets, in which trees were received from Germany last 

 spring, was torn apart, the rods submerged in water until the buds began 

 to grow, when cuttings were made and set. A large part of these cuttings 

 have made a fine growth. On account of the importance of osier culture 

 in this State the work will be extended, but may be transferred to the 

 Salamanca nursery. 



This nursery supplied the following quantities of planting material: 



Scotch pine, 3-year transplants 55 , 000 



White pine, 4-year transplants ^^ , 000 



Red pine, 3-year transplants 5 , 700 



Bull pine, 3-year transplants 5 , 000 



European larch, 3 -year transplants 5 , 000 



Japanese larch, 3-year transplants 3 .000 



Siberian larch, 3-year transplants 2 , 000 



108.700 



