Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 93]

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at very reasonable prices. Of course, they are small, and must go into nursery for at least one season. The following is a list of these trees, with prices and memorandum of sizes : 4 barrels Walnuts, % $3 $12 00 2 " Butternuts 6 00 20 M. White Ash, 6 to 12 inches high, @ $2 50 50 00 10 « " Sugar Maples, 6 to 12 inches high, < $2 50 & 25 00 6 " " Elm, " " " @$3.. 18 00 8 « Silver Maples, % $6 . 48 00 14 " Norway Spruce, 3 years, transplanted, @, $11 154 00 2 " Red Pine, 6 to 12 inches, " 50 00 2 " Black Spruce, 6 to 12 inches, @ $25 50 00 2 " Butternut Seedlings, @. $6 12 00 8 " White Willow Cuttings, @ 50c 4 00 6 " Tulip, 6 to 12 inches, transplanted, @, $12 72 00 8 " White Pine, 1 and 2 years, transplanted from forest 88 00 2 " Apple Stocks, 1 year, @ $5 10 00 8 " Black Sugar Maples, 6 to 12 inches, @ $2 16 00 4 " Bass-Wood, 6 to 8 inches 24 00 3 " Hemlock, 1 and 2 years 45 00 6 " American Chestnut, 4 tQ 8 inches, @ $10 60 00 5 " Apple Stock, 2 years, @ $8 40 00 250 Arbor Vitse, % $15 per hundred 37 50 12 M. Arbor Vitue for forest, 6 to 12 inches, @ $11 132 00 $953 50 It has been suggested, that the place heretofore selected for the forest tree plantation, is not so suitable as can be found on the Stock Farm, both on ac-. count of the nature of the ground, and of the fact that the ground heretofore chosen for this purpose may, and probably will be needed for experimental farming, etc. Your Committee, therefore, recommend that all the trees intended for the forest, remain in nursery for another season. They think that no time will be lost by taking this course. The trees planted last year have been well cultivated, and have made satisfactory growth. The whole farm has been surrounded by hedges of Osage Orange, except small intervals of wet land, and has made a good growth. Five thousand feet of under-drain has been put under the land intended for the arboretum. A gardener's house and conveniences have been erected. Materials for a green-house have been collected and prepared, and the building would have been erected last fall, but for the early setting in of cold weather. The whole sum so far expended for the purchase of trees, erection of buildings, labor, etc., on nursery, orchards, etc., amounts to $5,359 74. The Executive Committee appropriated $1,000 for the erection of the green-house, of which about one-half has been paid out, and we have left out of the State