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after transplant it. It will form a few side roots. This is 

 the best way to transplant forest trees, dig down and cutoff 

 the main roots, and in that way you will get side roots. I 

 will not take up any more time. 



Mr. Phillipps — I was going to say that if it is the pro- 

 gramme of this meeting to go to Mr. Loudon's at three it 

 only leaves ten minutes for both Tattle and myself, and I 

 think I had better give way to him. Well, in reference to 

 this ornamental tree planting I don't exactly know why I 

 was placed here. I never talked'on this subject in my life 

 and never thought on it but a little. The only reason I can 

 give that Mr. Adams put me on this discussion is that he 

 knows I like to be in good company; and being with Plumb 

 and Tuttle I find I am there. It is a little different subject 

 from what I expected. I hardly knew what an ornamental 

 tree was. I started out to find a man that knew more about 

 it than I did. I asked a man that had planted many orna- 

 mental trees, what he considered an ornamental tree. He 

 said: A tree good for nothing but to look at. I made up my 

 mind that about nine-tenths of the tree planting done in 

 Wisconsin for the last ten years was of the ornamental 

 kind. Our orchards are all ornamental plantations. I 

 wondered what I would say here; I thought he would not 

 take up birches, live oaks, hickoriefi, etc., but he has given 

 you a discussion of the whole subject; I want something 

 that is ornamental and useful both, I find I have many or- 

 namental apple trees and now I am taking a little different 

 view. 



As stated here this morning, we don't want to go 

 contrary to nature in planting trees. If I can get a tree 

 that will live five or six years, I will call it an ornamental 

 tree. I heard a definition in Minnesota of an ornamental 

 tree that I thought much of. Mr. Hedges, called the tree 

 planter of the west, was there. His hobby was planting 

 ornamental trees and forest trees to furnish shade. Having 

 to read a paper at the Minnesota Society his main point was 

 this, to examine the native forest and see what was doing 

 well there and it was safe to set such trees out in that lati- 

 tude. That was the point he tried to make in a whole hour. 



