TRANSACTIONS nORTTCl'LTlRAL SOCIETY OF NOUTIIERX ILL. 371 



For ornamental screens and shelter-belts, we prefer (if evergreens are 

 used exclusively) the Norway spruce and Scotch pine, set in alternate 

 rows, eight feet apart. 



Of deciduous trees, we prefer the sugar maple, ash-leaf maple, white 

 ash, white elm, and honey locust. We would also recommend more gen- 

 eral planting of the nut-bearing trees, such as black-walnut and butternut, 

 which answer the double purpose of shade and profit; 



Time will not permit of our giving more than a general outline of 

 ideas in connection with our subject. There are many points upon which 

 we would like to speak more fully, but we have already trespassed upon 

 your time and patience. 



Thanking you for your kind attention, and hoping that we may be 

 mutually benefited in our interchange of views and experience, and that 

 we may be permitted, at some future time, to more fully present our views 

 in regard to the subject of shearing and root-pruning, we respectfully sub- 

 mit the foregoing results of our observations and experience. 



On motion of the Secretary, discussion on the report was made the 

 special order for the opening of the afternoon session. 



The Society then adjourned to half past one o'clock this afternoon. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 

 The Society re-assembled, as per adjournment, and the special order of 



DISCUSSION ON SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



Was taken up. 



The Secretary asked if Mr. Garrison would explain why^ he rec- 

 ommended using no water in transplanting evergreens. 



Mr. Garrison said that by the use of water in the holes the earth 

 was likely to become baked, so as to exclude the water afterward, and that 

 if the roots were puddled they became coated with a mortar which, be- 

 coming dry, was almost impervious to water. He preferred to fill up the 

 hole with soil, mulch the surface well, and, if the earth was too dry, put 

 water upon the mulch. 



Mr. Austin preferred to put in water wliile planting, to settle the 

 earth about the roots and fill up all the cavities. 



Judge Weed had best success by using water at time of planting. 



Mr. WiER — The essayist left out some of the best evergreens from 

 his list ; for instance, the white spruce, which is preferable to the Norway 

 spruce. The green ash is also superior to the white ash to plant as an 

 ornamental tree. 



