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Kentucky Coffee Tree. The European Mountain Ash also succeeds 

 well if no effort is made to make it assume a tree-like shape. It 

 should be allowed to sprout freely from the roots. 



Among hardy climbers we find Lonicera sempervirens to be 

 very desirable. It blooms throughout the season. Lonicera SuUi- 

 vantii should be planted, too, for its showy, glossy leaves and its 

 bright red berries. 



Forestrv. — A forestry plantation of about five acres has been 

 very successful. The best trees are natives, such as elmg, green ash 

 and box elders. All the leading varieties of Russian poplars have 

 been tested at the station and in the prairie grove, and they have 

 all disastrously failed. It seems almost unnecessary to refer to these 

 poplars again, as their failure has been very general wherever tried ; 

 but only last spring a leading agricultural journal in this state was 

 advocating their planting on new farms for windbreaks. 



About nine years ago the Bureau of Forestry at Washington, 

 then in charge of Dr. Fernow, sent us eight thousand pine seedlings. 

 These were planted on two acres of rather dry, light prairie land 

 on which wheat had been grown for several years. We were di- 

 rected to set out the seedlings two feet apart each way, alternating 

 the pines with deciduous trees. We made the rows four feet apart 

 and planted part of the pines with deciduous tree seedlings, part of 

 them with alternate plantings of Wolf berry and part of them with 

 only the pine trees. The pure culture of pine has done by far the 

 best. The trees received but ordinary cultivation and no protection 

 other than one row of willows along the west side. The Scotch 

 pines have done the best and now average from six to eight feet in 

 height. The Austrian pines have made about half as much growth, 

 while Pinus ponderosa occupies a position between the two. A 

 larger per cent of Pinus ponderosa was lost in planting. Fully 

 ninety per cent of the Scotch pines are still alive, and the plantation 

 taken as a whole is a marked success. It will become a prominent 

 feature in the landscape of that neighborhood very soon. 



Mr. C. S. Harrison (Neb.) : I think you cannot do too much 

 for your trial stations ; a great deal depends on them. I have an 

 experiment station at York, and they pay me the enormous salary 

 of $20 a year. I have fifty varieties of lilacs, and they do very well. 

 I want to call attention to the Viburnum lentatum. That does well 

 in Manitoba. You cannot plant too many of the viburnums, or 

 high bush cranberry. Prof. Green has been making a special ef- 

 fort to get a more prolific variety. Of lilacs, or syringas, I have 

 secured fifty kinds. The oblatus is ten days earlier than the vul- 

 garis. We want to work along this line and induce the farmers to 

 fix up. We have a great many things that are standard, and we can 

 depend on them. I was surprised on visiting Manitoba to find so 



