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11/2+11/2 transplants after their first growing season at the Irving nursery, n.b. the compact root system. White spruce, 2+1, transplants.

Carolina poplar cuttings in conventional beds. Carolina poplar, 1+0, cuttings.

Seedlings outside for hardening off prior to out-planting. Jack pine, 1+0, greenhouse, tubed seedlings.

General view of tubed seedling greenhouses with first crop of seedlings to right. Greenhouses.

Details of "portable" greenhouse showing construction of wood and polyfilm, "meccano" set bench frames and oil space heater. Greenhouses.

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.