white cedar, black locust, white ash, Carolina poplar and other trees suitable for reforesting work.

The price varies from $2 per thousand trees for seedlings to $1 per thousand for the larger transplants.

Selection of Trees. In order to have the plantation successful and prove a profitable investment there are four factors which must

be considered. They are (1) what kind of soil have you to be planted, (2) what kind of product (lumber, pulp wood, posts, poles or ties) do you wish to grow, (3) should you use "transplants" or seedlings and (4) what kind of trees should be planted. Soils. The soil is a factor that can not be changed and its demands must be met. Some trees make more demands than others. The spruce require the best soil and the Scotch pine will grow on

250,000 white pine transplants, 3 years old, Saratoga Nursery. poor blow sand. An attempt has been made to classify in the following table the above mentioned trees according to their soil requirements. It is conceded that the better the quality of the soil the more productive will be the tree growth, but reforesting is not as a rule considered for agricultural land. The selection, therefore, becomes a question of what is the poorest quality of soil upon which trees may be planted and there make a profitable growth. The following table indicates generally the minimum soil requirements of trees:

Product. The owner must decide for himself whether he wants to grow hardwood or evergreen species; if he wants to grow poles, posts, lumber, pulpwood or other material. This being determined he should then consider the several kinds of trees which grow wood materials of merchantable kinds, and finally the tree or trees which grow at the most profitable rate upon his soil and under the conditions present.

There are many trees which are adapted for reforesting in this State and several of them even at the present prices of forest products offer profit in planting. These are the faster growing species which supply useful material. In the following table an attempt has been made to group the several species which are generally adapted for planting in this State and the purposes for which their wood may be used:

"Transplants" or "Seedlings."- All trees in order to make a profitable growth require light. Some kinds, such as spruce, have the ability to withstand shade, and to a degree it is beneficial to nearly all of them when they are small. In order to secure the most satisfactory growth a tree must have its light requirements

satisfied. The existing growth, be it grass, bramble, brush, mature trees, or other vegetation, and the density with which it stands (therefore, the amount of shade so produced, or, in other words, the scarcity of light which results for the planted tree) is a very important factor in determining not only what kind of a tree should be planted under these conditions but also the age or size of tree.

The size or age of trees you need will be chiefly determined by the nature and amount of vegetation growing upon the land to be planted. If you have fields that have only medium vegetation thereon the "seedlings" are strong enough to compete with the

Norway spruce 3-year old transplants (1,500,000), Saratoga Nursery.

other growth there and succeed. The accompanying illustration gives an idea of the size of various seedlings compared to a lead pencil.

If you have lands covered with brush or growth of briars or bramble, then "transplants" should be used because they are older and stronger trees and for this reason can survive greater shade and competition.

The trees which are to be planted need only be strong enough to compete with the other vegetation. Large stock is unnecessary and often unsuccessful. Evergreen seedlings are two-year-old trees grown from seed in dense beds. They are from three to six inches in height, slim and have a small root system. Examinations of plantations and reports from planters indicate that evergreen seed

lings do not do well upon dry sandy sites or upon heavy soils covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, weeds or other vegetation. Seedlings have succeeded well in old fields and pastures on moist loam soils where the natural growth of grass or weeds was

Two-year old seedlings. Left to right, Norway spruce, white cedar, Scotch pine, lead pencil (to show comparative size), white spruce, white pine, European larch.