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REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



There are. several firms at Halstenbek engaged in this business one of them 

 having 200 acres or more laid out in beds, or large plots without paths, with an 

 annual product of several million plants. They supply the managers of State, 

 communal and private forests who have no nurseries of their own, or who find 

 that they can purchase their plants cheaper than they can propagate them on 

 their own reviers, or who may need an extra supply at times in addition to that 

 raised on their own land. Shipments are also made to America, both to foresters 

 and nurserymen. The latter import one and two year old seedlings, and set them 

 out in their nurseries. 



A visit to the commercial nurseries of Germany, and an observation of their 

 immense annual output, will give some idea of the great extent which the planting 

 of artificial forests has attained throughout Europe. It indicates clearly the prac- 

 tical value of the system and commands the attention of American foresters, who 

 will find in it a good precedent for similar work at home. 



A notable feature of the business at these places is their large sales of two- 

 year-old seedlings and three-year-old transplants. The demand for four-year-old 

 transplants is comparatively small, due largely to the extra price and greater expense 

 of packing and freight. 



The three-year-old plants may be seedlings, or yearlings that, having been 

 transplanted, remained two years in the beds ; or, two-year-old seedlings that were 

 taken up and given one year in the transplant beds. 



The prices of coniferous plants at the commercial nurseries, delivered free on 

 board cars at the nearest railway station, are about as follows: 



SPECIES. 



Age. years. 



Inches. 



Per ioco. 



4 



8 to 15 



$2 75 



4 



8 to 16 



2 50 



4 



10 to 18 



2 50 



3 



4 to 6 



1 75 



3 



6 to 12 



1 75 



3 



8 to 16 



5 50 



3 



16 to 22 



4 50 



2 



4 to 6 



1 25 



2 



3 to 4 



1 50 



2 



6 to is 



2 00 



2 



4 to 12 



75 



2 



5 to 12 



3 00 



1 



2 to 3 



50 



White pine, once transplanted . 

 White spruce, once transplanted 

 Norway spruce, once transplanted 

 White pine, once transplanted . 

 Norway spruce, once transplanted 

 Douglas spruce, once transplanted 

 Larch, once transplanted . 

 Scotch pine, once transplanted . 

 White pine seedlings .... 



Larch seedlings 



Norway spruce seedlings . 

 Douglas spruce seedlings . 

 Scotch pine seedlings .... 



