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DISCUSSION. 59 



The main drive to the housi' should proceed as directly as possible 

 and still be gracefully curved. The best view of the house should be 

 carefully treated. Walks should be designed to fit the actual demands of 

 the place. Where the grounds are small and the distance is very short, 

 straight lines are preferable. Drives and walks are necessary evils — they 

 add no landscape beauty to the place, 1 ni must be tolerated because they 

 are needed to get about the grounds. 



Ideal effects are not to be attained by the amaleui- without observa- 

 tion and study. Take a good illustrated garden magazine, get outside 

 and study good plantings in our public parks, private grounds, and if 

 possible see such places as the Arnold Arboretum near Boston. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member: I would like to ask if there is anyone in the room who 

 has had any experience with that Schwedlerii maple. Talk about orna- 

 mental trees for foliage, we want something more on the foliage line, 

 if we can get it; and if it is hardy it will be of great benefit for Ne- 

 braska. Don't you have some of those maples in your parks here with 

 purple leaf? 



Mr. McCandlass: We have some purple-leaved maples in the parks, 

 but they are very slow to start, and have not done much in the time 

 they have been planted. I believe the leaf is green in the spring, but 

 in the fall it turns purple. 



C. S. Harrison: I think it is one of the very finest trees, but it 

 wants the very best of culti^ation and care. When it leafs out in the 

 spring it looks like a bank of peonies against the sky. As the leaves 

 get old they turn to a somewhat purplish green. There are three va 

 rieties and they are variations of the Norway maple. 



Mr. Edinborough: I would like to mention that I have been trying 

 to get information concerning that maple for several years. We had a 

 meeting in New York last September at which there were representa 

 fives from all the states and there were several questions asked con- 

 cerning this and the only answer I could get was that it was about as 

 hardy a maple as anything we have. I was somewhat surprised at those 

 reports, which were from ail over the country. I tried last season with 

 a few plants to get them started, but was not able to do so on account 

 of their being so many changes in the season. Next year I shall make 

 an effort to get that branch established. 



Mr. McCandlass: Here, I think is a good chmce to make a sug- 

 gestion. This society ought to have a committee on resolutions in re 

 gard to getting matters enacted into law, a provision for the collecting 

 of these different classes of plants and trees that we have in Nebraska, 

 and be formulated or classified so that they may be known by English 

 names. So many of our names of plants and trees and shrubs are given 

 in another name, some kind of Latin, Indian and Choctaw conglomera- 

 tion. I don't understand it and they are names, the most of them such 



