First planting of rooted cuttings from superior plantation trees. Black spruce, 1+1+2, seed production stock.

Late spring frost damage, n.b. brown tips of leaders. White spruce, 3+0, frost damage.

Modified gandy seeder to drill sow, really it produces a band rather than a single drill. Seeding equipment.

Peat application of 200cu.yds/ac. Land preparation.

6-row transplanter in operation. Black spruce, 2+0, transplanting.

Seedlings in Ontario tubes; sown April, photo Sept. White spruce, 1+0, container, Ontario tube.

Shade house for BC styroblock stock taken from greenhouse in spring. Container, shade house.

Interior of shade house, n.b. irrigation sprinkler. Container, shade house.

General view of drill sown (spring) beds, n.b. mulch. Fir douglas, 1+0, seedbeds.

General view of beds that have been root pruned (wrenched). White spruce, 2+0, root pruning.