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aA-ay, but plant the kind of hedge that is doing well in that vicinity. 

 Arbor vitae is doing well in the southeastern portion of the state, but 

 I have in mind one planted in Weeping Water, in the cemetery there, 

 that is not doing well. 



Mr. Crawford: One I have in mind is at Fairfield, la., and it is doing 

 hne. 



Mr. Hadkinson: Where are you located? 



Mr^ Crawford: I am not located. 



Mr. Hadkinson: The reason I asked you is so that the reporter will 

 get the locality that is asked or talked about. 



A Member: I would like to speak of our arbor vitse experience in 

 T.estern Iowa. When it was an open prairie, wind swept country, 

 hedges planted then did not live. If you will plant an arbor vitse in some 

 well protected place and give it proper care, you will succeed in getting a 

 hedge. A great deal depends upon the care you give an arbor vitse the 

 first two years; dig a little trench along side of it, and have plenty of 

 loose subsoil under your plants when planted. The first fall brush your 

 hedge; lay brush almost completely over it and shade it from the sun. 

 Do that the second year, and I think it is well to do it the third year. 

 If you leave it without protection in a wind swept country, it is a great 

 mistake; you will find it hard to succeed with plants that way. 



Question: Don't you find the privet winter kills occasionally? 



Mr. Hadkinson: I am sorry to say, yes. I have a hedge I have had 

 for three years. I cut it down every spring. The reason I grow it in 

 preference to any other is, it is such a nice hedge in the fall ; it is so nice 

 and green in the fall and sometimes lasts as long as January. 



Question: Why do you cut it down? 



Answer: Because it will die down anyway, so just as well cut it. 



A Member: If one wants a hedge in sod, you will find the Black Hills 

 spruce will do well; they will stand lots of sun, but the Black Hills 

 spruce in shade will not do well; they want sunshine. 



Mr. Hadkinson: I wanted to state regarding the privet. I can show 

 you in Dundee one of the prettiest hedges that grows, either in Europe 

 or any other country. It is not the California privet, and I don't think 

 it is the Amaurense. It is either the Amaurense or the Vulgaris; the 

 Amaurense is the same as the Polish, or is very closely allied. I have 

 tried the Amaurense at home, or at least it looks like it so much that 

 I have convinced myself that it is the Amaurense, but I have been contra- 

 dicted in it so much and told it is the Vulgaris, that I don't know. Any- 

 how it is a fine hedge. 



A Member: I would like to say, as far as hedges are concerned, 

 I have had a good deal of experience in Nebraska. I live at Osceola. 

 I have a very pretty hedge of berberry, purple and green. I am rather 

 surprised not to hear any mention made of the Osage Orange or Bodark. 

 I would not have a honey locust, I will take the Osage every time. In 

 regard to the privet hedge, I wish to say that I have only about three 



