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ter they have made a new growth of a few inches. IMant evergi'eens iC 

 you want the song birds to visit you early in the spring. 



The group of evergreens in view No. 1, we planted for three purposes. 

 First, beauty. Second, to hide from our vieAV certain objects that we 

 did not want in sight. Third, to protect our trough or tank where we 

 water our stock ; from the northwest winds. View No. 2, shows a row 

 of Norway Spruce which I planted because I like to see them grow ; 

 and to protect an apple orchard from the west winds; and as it is a 

 single row planted 20 feet apart it does not check the motion of the 

 air enough to cause the frost to settle. View No. 3, shows a hemlock 

 hedge; which makes a background for a part of the front yard and 

 screens the house and yard from the west winds. It also hides the vege- 

 table garden from view. View No. 4, shows snow on some evergreens 

 in our yard. No. 5, is a view of our garden of perennial plants such as 

 German Iris, Foxgloves, Oriental poppies and other hardy plants, 

 View No. 6, shows a Snowball under the boughs of a large White Pine. 

 View No. 7, shows a common Sweet Elder in blossom. It came up on 

 the north side of the bam, and most of farmers would have pulled it 

 out as soon as they saw^ it, but I let it grow, and I believe it is more 

 beautiful either in blossom or when loaded with fiiiit, than many of the 

 shrubs sold by nurserymen at high prices. What little we have done 

 has not cost very much money; but I believe it has increased the mar- 

 ket value of our farm more than one thousand dollars. 



SOME PHASES OF NURSERY INSPECTION. 



(by TROF. J. G. SANDERS^ UNIV. OF WISCONSIN.) 



It is my pleasure as a delegate to bring to you the greetings of the 

 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. It has been my privilege to at- 

 tend recently three horticultural meetings, one in Wisconsin, and one 

 last Tuesday in Minnesota, and I now have been with you since eleven 

 o'clock yesterday. I demurred on being appointed the official delegate 

 from the Wisconsin Society to this place, but the authorities said to 

 me, ''You are the man we want to act in this capacity. You have the 

 ideas that we want to present not only to our own people but to the 

 people of Michigan." 



The subject which appears on the program was the one which was 

 uppermost in my mind at the time of receiving the communication 

 from your secretary, Mr. Bassett. I am an entomologist by profession 

 and a horticulturist in a broader sense by instict and love. I have 

 charge in Wisconsin of the State Nursery and Orchard Inspection; 

 and have had charge of the work since the first of July. Previous to 

 that time I had been partially engaged in this line of work in Ohio 

 for three years, 1902-4, and was then called to Washington to take up 

 in part similar work with the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture.. The government work at Washington is not in certain ways 

 as satisfactory to my make-up as state work, so I was pleased when 

 I had an opportunity to come to Wisconsin and take up the state work. 



