PLANTING EVERGREENS. 99 



Mr. Bomberger : The Norway Spruce is a cheap tree. We have worked 

 with it about twenty-two years. It is a tree that seems to grow, but I 

 would not advocate its general planting. Of course, we are on the higher 

 ground. If we were living from thirty-five to fifty miles north and along 

 ■^ the Northwestern railroad or Northern Iowa there might be some differ- 

 erence. There is where the Norway Spruce and the Larch is a success. 

 On the rather rolling ground south of the Northwestern line of railroad 

 throughout the state I don't think the Norway Spruce is a success. It is 

 all right if everything else is all right. The Norway Spruce must have a 

 favorable location. In the planting of evergreens I don't think we need 

 so many rows. With our experience I would start with a less number of 

 rows. I would put the most valuable kind in the center and put rows on 

 each side and on the west I put the White Pine and next inside I would 

 put the Colorado Spruce. You have all the trees that are adapted to 

 western soil. Then, I would put on the outside of it Scotch Pine. I be- 

 lieve I prefer the Scotch Pine to the Colorado Spruce. Listen to the idea 

 that I have come to after my misfortune. Scotch Pine on the outside 

 and Scotch Pine on the inside. Many people have advocated that the 

 Scotch Pine ought to be cut out entirely. For ten or twelve years the 

 Scotch Pine does very nicely, after that it runs out. We are now re- 

 moving those trees, they do not make a permanent windbreak. 



When we get to talking on evergreens we get on a subject that is 

 very interesting. The European Larch is the best all round pine for Iowa. 

 I think we have some around there that are thirty-eight or forty years old. 



The President: Now, in the spring if you wish to transplant ever- 

 greens take burlap and wrap around the tree like a surgeon would in 

 binding the limb of a person. You can bind it in different way so that 

 you can move it around anywhere. If you want to transplant it or remove 

 it you can put it into a trench so as to keep the roots damp in the mean- 

 time for several days. You can do the same way with shrubs. You can 

 burlap your evergreens and transplant them and you can handle them 

 with great ease and facility and after transplanting will grow. A friend 

 of mine in Omaha says I am quite careless in handling evergreens in this 

 way. Of course, I don't want to advocate this plan to new planters. 



Mr. Secretary, have you anything in the question box? 



Secretary: I have nothing. 



Mr. Beltzer: If it is not out of order I have a motion to offer. 



The President: I will receive it. 



Mr. Beltzer: I move you, Mr. President, that the line be stricken out 

 of Article IV where it reads: "The secretary shall be elected by the Ex- 

 ecutive Board" and that there shall be inserted in place thereof "and be 

 elected by the members belonging to this society." 



Mr. Brown: If Mr. Beltzer's motion is really an amendment to our 

 Constitution, if that is what he intends it, it can be endorsed today and 

 taken up at the session tomorrow, which would be legitimate. In any 

 event it would have to lay over one day and I therefore move that it be 

 laid over until tomorrow. 



