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the snow and frost gems, a single picture of which is worth more ]than they have 

 cost. 



DISCUSSIOJT OF MR. FULLER's PAPER. 



Mr. Sias thouglit that in Southern Minnesota the Austrian Pine was 

 a better tree than the Scotch Pine. 



Mr. Jordan gave it as his experience, that the Scotch Pine was best 

 for wind-breaks, 



Mr. Dart understood the Hemlock Avas not hardy in Minnesota, 

 and asked information regarding- it. 



Mr. Fuller said his Hemlocks at Litchfield were hardy and doing 

 well. Mr. Gibbs said that he saw Hemlocks at Wilmar, five years 

 planted, that were doing well. 



Mr. Pearce said the Austrian Pine is the most tenacious of life of 

 any evergreen, and that it was one of the finest for ornamental plant- 

 ing. 



Mr. Underwood considers the Austrian Pine a failure ; said it dis- 

 colored, lost its leaves, and was bad generally; but spoke very highly 

 of the Scotch Pine, and of the White Spruce, which he said had been 

 very successful with him. 



Mr. Fuller had planted White Spruce and lost them all. Mr. Dartt 

 found the White Spruce the most beautiful of evergreens, and best for 

 ornamental planting, but for rapid growth and for wind-breaks, he 

 preferred the Scotch Pine to any other. Mr. Fuller remarked that he 

 never had a branch of Scotch Pine broken by the snow. 



Mr. Harris asked Mr Fuller if the sapsucker injured his pines. He 

 replied that it did not. Mr. Harris thought the Austrian Pine an 

 admirable tree to clothe the bluffs along the river, but did not think it 

 adapted to the prairies, and thinks the Hemlock equalh' valuable, but 

 that they need a l.ttle protection. 



Mr. Dart thas a dwarf White Pine that is a success on his grounds. 

 He described it as a low habit, and especially adapted to ornamental 

 planting. Mr. Sias said he had several hundred dwarf White Pine 

 doing well, several of them seven feet high. 



PLUMS. 



BY J. M. UNDERWOOD. 



Why is it that the cultivation of this most excellent fruit has occupied so dimuiu- 

 tive a place in the deliberations and publications of our society I do not know, unle.ee 

 it is because the English varieties are known to be too tender for this climate, and 

 nothing else was thought worthy of much attention or prominence. Possibly it is 

 thought that the immortality won for it, by the illustrious "Jack Horner" on that 



