g2 REPORT OF THE 



in 1901 was 29 feet 5 inches, with a diameter, breast high, from 6 inches to 9 inches. 

 One hundred Norway spruces were set out, of which eighty per cent grew, showing 

 an average height of 20 feet i inch in 1894, and 33^ feet in 1891, with diameter from 

 4^4 inches to 8 inches, breast high. One thousand Scotch pines planted in an old 

 borrow-pit, where ground is wet and many trees have been thrown out by frost, show 

 a variation in height from 3 feet to 21 feet, and in diameter from one inch to 6]4, 

 inches. The trees are mostly crooked and poor. 



Planting of 1 5 55. 



One thousand European larch, of which seventy-five per cent grew, showing an 

 average height of 15 feet 3 inches in 1894, and 30 feet 2 inches in 1901, with diam- 

 eter, breast high, from 3^ to 8 inches. These are on filled land, and are very 

 thrifty. 



Planting of iSa^. 



European larches on filled land show average height of 24 feet 8 inches, and 

 diameter, breast high, 4JE^ inches to 7 inches in 1901. European larches in old 

 gravel pit, where most of the trees died, show an average height of 9 feet, with 

 diameter from i^ inches to 21^ inches. European larches on filled land show an 

 average height of 19 feet 8 inches, with diameter from one inch to four inches. 



The Scoth pines on filled land attained a height from 15 to 26 feet, and diameter 

 from i^ to 7 inches, breast high. In old gravel pit, on very poor, rocky soil, it 

 shows a height from 5 to 1 1 feet, with diameters from i}4 to 2 inches. On filled 

 land, shows a height from 12 feet to 24 feet, and diameter from i}( inches to 3^ 

 inches. 



Planting of 1555. 



In making this plantation the brush was all cut away, leaving volunteer oaks 

 and pitch pines from 3 inches to 4 inches in diameter. Most of the larches planted 

 have been killed, apparently smothered by volunteer oak, chestnut, pitch pine, 

 maple and ferns. In 1901 the European larches were from 6 to 20 feet high, and 

 from 1 inch to 3^ inches in diameter. 



Planting of 1559. 



The catalpas were a failure. Only a few are left, many of which have been 

 killed down to the roots. The Russian mulberries all died within two years. This 

 plantation is on white gravel, rather wet, and there is much volunteer growth of 

 pitch pine, oak, mountain laurel and brush. The European larches are now from 

 31^ feet to 22 feet high, and from 3.^' inch to 4 inches in diameter. 



