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Ironwood and Bird Cherry were in bad condition, having gone astray 
in transit; the Jack Pine were wild seedlings, dug in the Minnesota 
pineries; the Rock Pine and Douglas Spruce were wild Rocky Mountain 
seedlings, dug in Pueblo County, Colo., and the remaining trees were 
nursery stock. All were carefully planted with spades. 
On June 17 the conifers were reported a good stand, being 72 per 
cent of the number planted. October 28 Professor Mason reported 38 
per cent of those planted alive—Jack Pine and White Spruce having 
made a stand of 56 and 54 per cent, respectively. 
In April, 1897, the blanks in this plat were planted with Artemisia, 
Tulip Tree, Norway Spruce, and Scotch Pine, and on June 30 the plat 
contained the following trees: 1,225 Artemisia, 655 Scotch Pine, 43 
Rock Pine, 1,580 Jack Pine, 467 Norway Spruce, 165 Tulip, 3 Oak, 50 
Douglas Spruce; total, 4,188. In October, 1897, a count of this plat 
resulted: 1,175 Artemisia, 620 Scotch Pine, 7 Rock Pine, 1,418 Jack 
Pine, 293 Norway Spruce, 117 Tulip, 2 Oak, 50 Douglas Spruce, the 
total being 58 per cent of the original number planted. 
It will be observed that in this plat, which has received thorough 
cultivation since it was planted, the Scotch and Rock Pines have not 
made as good a stand as in the grass plat above noted. It may be that 
in this stony soil the protection afforded by the tall bunch grasses is 
more beneficial than cultivation, the grasses not forming a compact sod. 
The conditions noted are common on the bluffs along the Kansas rivers, 
but it is believed that the location is in no sense typical of the prairies 
away from the rivers, nor of the plains in the western part of the State. 
Regarding the trees set last spring (1897) in this plat Professor Mason > 
says: ‘*The Scotch Pines were reset partly from nursery stock received 
this spring, and partly with trees that had grown for a year in nursery 
rows here. Of the latter scarcely any died.” 
PLATS PLANTED IN 1897. 
Four plats of somewhat less than 1 acre each were planted in 1897. 
These were all designed with light-foliaged trees as nurses, and in all 
of them spaces have been left for the conifers, which will be planted in 
hereafter, as indicated in the plans. These piats are on high prairie, 
the soil somewhat deeper than in the plats above noted and quite free 
from stones, underlaid with limestone. The land was formerly occupied 
by an orchard, which had been cut out three years previously and the 
field planted to small grain, followed by corn. In the fall of 1895 it was 
plowed 10 to 12 inches deep, and was in fine condition when planted 
in April, 1897. 
