IG Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



After he got through questions were asked, and one man 

 asked Mr. Hedges this question, " How far north he would 

 consider it safe to plant the native walnut or butternut?" 

 Hedges looked around with disgust and said, " I would go 

 into the forest and find the tree and I would not plant it any 

 further north than God Almighty intended it." That was a 

 very good answer. You will find on the Missouri River 

 growing there the box alder and the elm and the cotton- 

 wood and there I have only recommended to plant these 

 three varieties. I don't think it necessary for me to say 

 anything about varieties. Mr. Plumb has given you the 

 names. One word about ornamental and useful trees. 

 I shipped in a carload of spruce trees years ago and 

 set many of them a rod or two apart where I intended to 

 have a fence, and after that put in Whitney's No. 20, and 

 where the 20 failed put in some other kinds, and I am plant- 

 ing most of my trees in that way now, in thick rows, and am 

 now using that for fence posts. Some say people will go 

 along and steal the fruit. Let them steal it. They are orn- 

 amental to the farm and they are useful. By keeping a 

 lath protection around them one year I have very little 

 trouble in keeping them. I presume there is not a man here 

 this afternoon but has ornamental trees all around his prem- 

 ises and likes to see them. 



I am like Mr. Plumb, I think a great deal of the hard 

 maple. The people at Trempealeau had a cemetery that 

 needed to be adorned. Mr. Wilcox, the old gentleman, said 

 if the people would get up a festival and raise the money 

 to put in ornamental trees he would furnish the trees. I 

 told him that people would remember him longer by that 

 than by anything else. Such a thing will perpetuate our 

 memory better than any other act we can do. I guess I 

 have taken my time and Mr. Tuttle's too. 



Mr. Tuttle — I have very little to say on ornamental trees 

 but I think if I had an interest out on the treeless plains of 

 Colorado and Dakota, I should think most any tree was an 

 ornamental tree. I always had a preference for the elm in 

 the city. In fact I came from what is called the City of 

 Elms. I think any tree that will compare with the elm is 



