with the leading officials of the State. Already certain tracts of 

 forest land have been acquired by the State to be developed and 

 kept permanently in forests, and, as it is hoped, to become a center 

 around which will gather the whole wooded industry of New Jersey. 



It is still further a matter of congratulation that within the past 

 year Dr. J. C. Smock, long time Director of the Geological Survey 

 of the State, has given to Rutgers College (including the Xew 

 Jersey State College of Agriculture) a tract of thirty-six and a 

 half acres adjoining the College Farm, upon which is to be de- 

 veloped a proving grounds for various kinds of trees from other 

 portions of the world, by means of which it is hoped to bring into 

 the State timber trees that may far surpass in practical value those 

 native to our commonwealth. 



Such a tract may become the administrative head of all the cen- 

 ters of research along the various lines of forestry — a branch of 

 the State College where the people may apply for information, and, 

 by visiting, become further acquainted with this work of tree intro- 

 duction and other forestry problems in their various interesting 

 phases. 



Feeling assured that our forests are to receive that attention 

 commensurate with their economic and esthetic importance, the 

 Experiment Station has prepared a list of trees native to, or grow- 

 ing in the wild state in, New Jersey, with the hope that it will 

 give to the people somewhat of that elemental knowledge so much 

 needed for the prosecution of the work of developing to a profitable 

 issue the forest interests of the State. 



A knowledge of what we already have naturally precedes that of 

 our needs from outside. At best, this list can be only a preliminary 

 step, but, it being taken, the way will be made for the publication 

 at an early date of a revised list accompanied, possibly, with maps 

 showing the forest areas and those that might be made profitable 

 again by being covered with timber trees for the good of our lumber 

 interests, the water-supply of our cities and that beauty of rural 

 scenery that is a growing factor in the development of our State 

 that the sooner reckoned with the better for one and all. 



The present list is based upon the "Flora of New Jersey," pre- 

 pared by Dr. N. L. Britton (now Director-General of the New 

 York Botanical Gardens), and published by the Geological Survey 

 in 1889. The localities for each species are chiefly such as are 

 given in that report supplemented with information from the 

 "Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity" (1905), 



