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Numbers and Species of Trees growing in the South Island (31st March, 1913).

R. G. Robinson, Superintending Nurseryman, South Island.

Tapanui Nursery, Otago. (Area, 132 acres; altitude, 500 ft.; established, 1897.) It is questionable if local tree-raising operations have had to be conducted under more adverse conditions since the establishment of this nursery than during the past season, and following immediately upon an unusually sunless year it is only reasonable to anticipate in the attainment in tree-growing work generally a decreased measure of success. The annual rainfall (43-15 in. occurring over 213 days) is the heaviest yearly precipitation since 1905, and undoubtedly the wet weather has been more persistent than in any previousrecording year. In most localities a similar rainfall to that experienced here would be looked upon with approbation; but the argillaceous composition of the surface soil and substrata on this station forbids systematic tillage unless a fair proportion of sunshine and drying winds are distributed throughout the season. Raising of Seedlings. —Special attention was directed upon the seed-bed area by manuring and frequent tillage, and during the last two weeks of October some 476 lb. of tree-seed —as shown on Schedule V —were operated with under fair conditions. To the subsequent coldness must be attributed the slowness in germination throughout, although gradually an even though somewhat thin crop of seedlings resulted. It will be noticed that some 2,122,100 yearlings were

Name of Tree. Dusky Hill Plantation. Conical w .,.„„. GimmerHUls 5K? ! , 1 K ma bum Plantation. Mutation. Plantation . Plantation. «"**«■ Hanmer D umgree Raincliff Plantation. Hantation. Plantation. Total. Acer pseudo-platanus „ saccharum Aesculus hippocastanum .. Alnus glutinosa Betula alba Castanea vesca .. „ (in situ) .. Catalpa speciosa Corylus avellana Cotoneaster Simmondsii .. Cupressus Lawsoniana 105,000 350 1,800 8,750 25,000 2,050 6,200 27 480 1,800 164,671 2,575 42,750 108,125 400 125 1,200! 4,300 5 400 67,460 26,215 9^000 270,471 3,050 1,800 120,160 178,600 2,050 6,200 27 480 1,800 300 360 12,675 4,250 11,825 573,000 2,100 33,080 6,591,299 2,600 1,350 1,084,220 182,255 1,998,315 238,114 200 1,330 1,925 37,558 275 4,458,763 11,050 62,950 1,238,822 1,625 12,365 310 1,600 30,977 218,675 16,575 339,525 30,000 360 10,175 4,250 4,025 371,300 300i „ macrocarpa Cytisus laburnum Fagus sylvatica Fraxinus americana „ excelsior Grisellinia littoralis Juglans regia Larix europaea „ leptolepis Picea alba „ excelsa „ sitchensis Pinus austriaca „ Benthamiana „ canariensis „ contorta .. „ halepensis „ insignis „ Jeifreyii .. „ Laricio „ maritima .. „ muricata .. ,, ponderosa „ rigida „ strobus „ Torreyana Pittosporum tenuifolium .. Populus (vars.) Pseudo-tsuga taxifolia Pyrus aucuparia Quercus pedunculata Quercus pedunculata (acorns in situ Robinia pseudo-acacia Salix (vars.) Sequoia sempervirens Sophora tetraptera Thuja plicata Ulmus campestris Various trees and shrubs .. 2^500 • • I •■ 7,800 201,000 2,100 13,000 470,000 2,600 1,350 202,000 85,000 275,000 25,000 3,090,300 "700 16J010 34^905 16\000 187^254; ;2,577 \ 830 205^000 i 1 815,525 63,375 453,125 59,770 3^300 3^200 112J821 9,180 75,764 63,395 33,880 786,295 56,400 105,000 12,000 200 330 1,600 600 325 25,458 25 1,719,188 1,250 12,050 474,475 825 5,125 i"ooo 500 100 380,000 9,800 3,200 40,000 1^800 "200 40,000 965^055J 10,800 150 1,192,720 160^000 l"500 750 74^020 195^037 35,200 432,540 11,000 22,000 800 6,000 110 1,200 200 1,600 6,000 56,000 1,800 205,000 30,000 14,700 87,325 3,195 133,825 40 2^500 '' 100 11,580 10^027 "250 56,750 16^000 "700 1,100 1,600 2,500 800 630 8,350 4,675 200 225 24,325 5J70 3^308 o]00o 20,000 29,450 19,753 200 2,725 25,411 630 50,400 "286 "400 50 \ 000 Totals 2,180,837 7,726,347 30,525 152,896 389,554 1,466,805 5,346,871 569,640 50,000 17,913,475