Extracted seedlings to show root development. Black spruce, 1+0, container stock.

Drills own jack pine, really results in bands. First slide shows September beds and the second the same in June. Jack pine, 1+0, sowing in drills.

General view inside greenhouse. Black spruce, 1+0, container stock.

50-day old black spruce in plastic house, broadcast peat beds. Black spruce, 1+0, seedlings.

First main plastic house crop in paper pots after 50 days i.e. 50 days after sowing. Black spruce, 1+0, container stock, paper pots.

A general view of plastic greenhouses to grow paper pots; each house can grow 2 million seedlings. Greenhouse.

A general view of transplant lines after enlargement of field. Black spruce, 2+2, transplants.

Chemically thinned with "gramoxone." Black spruce, 3+0, thinning.

Comparison of seedlings used for transplant stock: on left (yellow) seedlings from overwintered beds; on right those from stock lifted in fall and frozen stored until transplanting.

Rooted black spruce cutting taken from outstanding plantation tree. Black spruce, 1+0, cutting.