DISCUSSION. 77 



Member : Do you have trouble in planting? 



Mr. Scott: We have had. no experience of that aged trees. 

 It is difficult proposition to transplant a Ball Pine after the third 

 year, unless it has been root pruned. 



Mr. Harrison: I have had ninety-five per cent of two or 

 three rows. 



Mr. Scott: That would be a very good per cent. You 

 would not advise growing them longer than three years? 



Mr. Harrison: No sir. 



Mr. Scott: I presume the Ball Pine is the most difficult 

 one of the pines to transplant successfully. 



Member: It has a root about eighteen inches long. You 

 want to get as much as you can? 



Mr. Scott: Yes sir. It is a very hardy pine, but the dif- 

 ficulty is in transplanting it successfully. 



Member: Have you had any experience in propagating the 

 Red Cedar? 



A. Have not succeeded. 



Mr. Spofford: Evergreen, Scotch Pines and quite a num- 

 ber of others? 



Mr. Scott: That is a very difficult question. There is one 

 general fact with the Scotch Pine, it does not live to be an old 

 tree in this country. In this region they are a short lived 

 tree. 



Member: Ten years ago, fuUy one third died. 



Mr. Scott: It is possible there is some disease; although I 

 have no experience in trees dying with us. 



Mr. Harrison: The Scotch Pine does not belong to this 

 country and we ought not to plan it. The further west you go 

 the shorter lived it is. I have known whole groves blotted out 

 "in the Republican Valley. You ought not to plant them at all. 

 Plant the Austrian Pines if you want something to depend on. 

 We had a meeting at the University, and there were represen- 

 tatives from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and the position of the 



