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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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We can further say that every effort will be made by usto prevent importations of pine. The disease is well under control and ouronly trouble will be to prevent nurserymen and private parties from im-porting. The accompanying colored plate shows the appearance of the diseaseand an explanation follows: Plate 1. A live, young white pine plant showing swelling of thetrunk and of the branches at the whorl, and on these swollen parts the yellowspore bags (Aecidia) of the Peridermium Strobi. Plate 2. Branch of the white pine showing the swelling caused by theblister rust. The entire swollen part and the branches starting from itare already dead. The bark is torn. The Aecidia of last year have droppedoff. Plate 3. Currant leaf with Cronartium ribicolum on the under side.The bright yellow deposits are the Uredospores, which spread from Ribesto Ribes; the brownish strings are the Teleutosspores, whose Sporidia againtransmit the disease to the white pine and there produce the PeridermiumStrobi.
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NY •£ WAi vSON DEER HUNTERS CAMP forest, fish and game commissioner. 273 Reforesting State Lands On account of the great demand for trees by our land owners this workwas practically abandoned for the present year. At the Paul Smiths plantations, 7,000 Scotch pine transplants wereset, in fail places, by the man watching the plantation during the spring. A plantation of 60,000 trees was made on the land acquired for theDelaware Fish Hatchery, near Margaretville, to protect the water supply.This is the second plantation on State land in the Catskills. At Chubb Hill (near Lake Placid) 30,000 trees were planted and thearea of this plantation increased twenty-five acres. During the summer our plantations have been surveyed and carefullymapped for future reference. All our plantations are making a very satisfactory growth. Seed Spot The seed spot is, next to broadcast seed sowing, the simplest method ofartificial reforesting. It consists essentially in preparing little spots, usuallyabout

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