The first set up of "meccano" greenhouses set up to produce Ontario tubed seedlings. Greenhouses.

Front view of lifter in operation. Red pine, 3+0, lifting with modified potato digger.

Grooved roller developed at nursery by weldind V-iron strips on a roller. Seed bed grooved roller.

Manual weeding of rising 2+0 seedbeds. Red pine, weeding by hand.

A general view of transplanted lines after a hand weeding n.b. the weeds in the paths. White spruce, 2+1, transplants.

Lifted machine transplanted stock showing distortion i.e. J-shaped roots as a result of being dragged by the machine at time of planting. White spruce, 2+2, transplant stock.

Fertilizer trial in transplant red pine at rates of 50,100 and 200lbs/acre, photo 100#N/ac as ammonium nitrate. Red pine, 2+0, fertilizer trial.

A general view of the experimental nursery showing transplant trials. Sitka spruce, 1+1, experimental nursery.

A general view of seed beds, n.b. roll shades and bed boards. Compare with the juniper nursery of Irving 1965.

A general view of the research nursery; showing grit mulch plots, and large-scale fertilizer trial in background. Experimental plots.