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with other trees it is a good tree, but planted with its own kind, it will be- 

 always surely destroyed by insects. 



Mr. Carpenter then exhibited a number of seedlings which were planted in 

 the spring, exhibiting the relative growth of the various varieties and recom- 

 mending which ones should be planted together. Among the varieties exhibited 

 were black locust, black walnut, box elder and mulberry. 



Mr. Millett gave his experiences with a timber claim. He wanted to know 

 whether a slow growth was advantageous, in consideration of the question of 

 the trees living through the winter. He was assured that their slow growth 

 was more favorable to their living through the winter. 



Mr. Masters said that this country west of the Missouri had been called the 

 Great American Desert. He then held up some handsome apples grown near 

 Denver, and^aid that hereafter the plains should be called the Great American 

 Dessert. 



On motion, Mr. Isaac Horner, of Kansas, was requested to spend thirty min- 

 utes in telling the congress his success in silk culture. He had with him a 

 large number of beautiful specimens. His object, he said, in addressing the 

 congress, was to persuade them of the advantage of cultivating the mulberry 

 tree, which is the basis of silk culture. 



The secretary then read an interesting paper on "The Management of the 

 Forests in the United States," by Albert Borcherdt. He advocated withdraw- 

 ing all forest lands belonging to the government from market, and establishing 

 a bureau to care for them. 



The meeting then adjourned until 7:30. 



Ihe Evening Session. 



The evening session was opened by the reading of a paper on "Ornamental 

 Trees for Colorado Planting and Methods of their Culture," by Prof. James 

 Cassidy. He said: The first impressions of the traveler in this State cannot 

 be said to be the most pleasing, accustomed as Eastern people usually are to 

 associating rural life with orchards, groves and other embellishments of nature 

 in the country. But since the conditions of pioneer life are rapidly passing 

 away it would seem to be high time that we seek to avert the danger of becom- 

 ing so accustomed to over-bleak surroundings as to forget the enhanced value 

 of crops properly protected and the charms of trees, shrubs and flowers. 



He spoke of the elm, the maple, the box elder, the birch and many other 

 trees, giving the advantages and disadvantages of each for Colorado culture. 



In conclusion, he said: The fairest adornments of nature everywhere are 

 simply trees, shrubs and grass. What is especially needed to-day is the 

 diffusion of information among land owners as to varieties of fruit and forest 

 trees adapted to our State, with such methods of culture under irrigation as 

 shall insure with proper care their permanent establishment and usefulness. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



The congress then proceeded to the consideration of the various resolutions 

 presented in the afternoon by the committee on resolutions. Each resolution 



