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Schedule 2.—Details of Two-year-old Trees, grown 1907-8. (Fourth Crop.)

Schedule 3.—Details of Three-year-old Trees, grown 1907-8.

Schedule 4.—Details of Trees transferred from Ruatangata Nursery to Puhipuhi Plantation, 1907-8.

Starborouoh Nuhsbrt. (Area, 148 acres; altitude, 100 ft.) liuin fell on 104 days during the year, the rainfall —1732 in.—being the lowest ever recorded at this station. The maximum monthly fall was in April, when 2 - 67 in. fell. The maximum shr.de temperature registered was 94°, on the 29th January; the minimum, 26°, on the 14th June and the 24th July. Frost occurred on fifty-seven nights during the year. During the first six months of the year there was a good average rainfall, but from the beginning of October a severe drought set in, lasting till the end of February, the rainfall for those months being only 1"95 in. Though scarcely any death-rate from this cause is noticeable among the nursery stock, shelter-belts and shrubberies have suffered very much, and a glance at these, where a great number of trees 10 ft. and 12 ft. high have succumbed, is convincing proof of the severity

Name. Number Hejght J Nursery Lines. Inch e«' Vain, per Total Value. Thousand. Remarks. Podooarpue totara . dacrydioides Juniperus Virginiana .. Sequoia eempervirens .. Phormium tenax Cordyline Australia Totals 222,560 1,840 420 88 530 460 225,898 18 12 Iβ 10 L8 18 £ a. d. £ s. d. 4 5 0 945 17 6 1 10 0 2 15 0 3 0 0 15 3 6 0 0 0 10 6 3 0 0 1 12 0 10 0 0 9 0 952 9 3 Excellent growth. Good strong treee. strong plants.

Number in Height Nursery in Lines., Inches. Value per Thousand. Total Value. Remarks. Name of Tree. Picea BUchensis .. • .. Varieties Japanese shrubs Totals .. Pseudo-tsuga taxifolia ~1 .. 13,350 100 ! 13,450 3,000 7 4 £ s. d. 3 5 0 6 0 0 £ a. d. 43 7 9 Medium growth. 0 12 0 Have done well. 43 19 9 3 5 0 9 IS 0 All dead.

Name of Tree. Number. Value per Thousand. Total Value. Remarks. Podooarpus totara.. dacrydioides Picea eitchensU Pseudo-tsuga taxifolia Hikora ovata Juglans nigra Sequoia sempervirens , gigantea .. Fraxinus Americana Eucalyptus amygdalina obliqua , rostrata resinifera redunca Stuartiana Juglans nigra Four tons chafl Totals .. .. 170,400 1,730 .. 30,650 .. 35,500 .. I 2,575 .. J 4,940 .. I 765 330 20 .. 50,800 15,650 .. 48,000 .. I 46,040 10,400 .. ! 72,990 490,790 5,382 .. -496,172 H s. d. 4 5 0 1 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 4 10 0 4 10 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 £ s. d. 724 4 0 2 12 0 7(5 12 6 88 15 0 11 11 9 22 4 6 3 13 0 13 6 0 0 10 76 4 0 23 9 6 72 0 0 69 1 2 15 12 0 109 9 8 Medium growth. Doing well. All died. Fairly well. Doing very poorly. Doing very well. Have not taken well. Doing very well. Doing exceedingly well. 3 0 0 £G per ton 1,295 11 8 16...2 9 24 0 0 Planted in situ. Sent to Botorua. 1,335 14 5 A. GOBDON, Nurseryman in Charge.