174 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Question: Do you trim the Black Hills spruce for a hedge? 



Answer: Certainly, if you are to make anything out of it. 



Question: Doesn't the honey locust make any sort of a hedge? 



Answer: It makes a very good hedge. I have no use for honey locust, 

 I thought you said black locust. 



Question: Will not the black locust sprout all over the farm? 



Answer: It might sprout if you mutilate the roots, but if a man goes 

 in for planting hedges and iixing up a place he must expect to work; you 

 cannot plant them and let them go ; you have to care for them ; they must 

 be kept in shape. 



Question: I wanted to ask about the distance to plant privet? 



Mr. Hadkinson: I have planted privet from eight to twelve inches. I 

 prefer eight myself. 



Question: Do you plant the arbor vit^ in a double row? 



Mr. HaaKinson: No, I would plant the arbor vitse in a single row. 



Question: How far apart do you plant arbor vitse? 



Mr. Hadkinson: I planted one hedge once twenty inches — between 

 eighteen and twenty inches. I would like to state that there is another 

 plant or evergreen that makes a very nice, compact hedge, and that is the 

 Siberian arbor vitse; but that is tramping on ground where I may get 

 into trouble. It does well in certain localities; some of you may be able 

 to tell where they do well. 



Question: Do you think the arbor vitae is safe to plant as an orna- 

 mental shrub in the yard? 



Mr. Hadkinson: Sure, if you are not too far west. 



Question: All over the state? 



Mr. Hadkinson: No, I would not recommend it all over the state. We 

 have recommended many evergreens in our guide, by consulting that you 

 will see the varieties. A person that reads that ought to be properly 

 guided. I have seen arbor vitae doing nicely in different places in the 

 state just for a yard shrub. 



Mr. Crawford: What is the prettiest hedge? If you had to hold up 

 your hand and express an opinion, would you not have to acknowledge 

 that the arbor vitse is the prettiest hedge that grows? 



Mr. Hadkinson: I would acknowledge things tea or twenty years back 

 that I would not right now. 



Mr. Crawford: You are not answering my question. 



Mr. Hadkinson: That depends entirely upon a man's taste. 



Mr. Crawford: Well, I ask your taste. Is not the arbor vitse the 

 prettiest hedge that grows? 



Mr. Hadkinson resumes the chair. 



Mr. Hadkinson, President: We have our question box. 



The Secretary: Here is a question from Mr. Stephens of Crete: 

 "Would like a report on work of our Horticultural Department, State 

 Farm, investigation of codling moth and scab. What did the U. S. do 

 along this line? How often to spray and what with? E. F. Stephens." 



