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Mr. Sherman : I think I have grown birch from seed of the 

 cut leaf. . 



Mr. Harrison : Have you had experience with Norway 

 maples? 



Mr. Sherman : They are not satisfactory. I have tried 

 several forms of the Norway maple. 



Prof. Green : I have perhaps a hundred or so of Norway 

 maple that I planted alongside of drives. They make a slow 

 growth. 



Mr. Harrison : There are a few other things I have been 

 testing. There is the cut leaf sumach. It is getting to be very 

 popular, and I believe it would be all right here. Mr. Sherman 

 said nothing about the black haw, and a good deal of attention 

 ought to be paid to that. Then there is another, the arbutus 

 spirea. It blooms with the tulips. I have seen a good deal of it. 



Judge Moyer: There are a couple of native shrubs that have 

 not been mentioned that do very well with us. One is the bush 

 cherry, that grows wild With us, and when planted in a garden 

 it grows from fifteen to twenty feet high and has drooping 

 branches. It is a beautiful tree. I have not seen it cultivated, 

 but that one kind is one of the most beautiful trees we have. 

 Another shrub that ought to be planted, one of bur common 

 kinds that grows along the edges of the woods, is a beautiful 

 shrub with leaves of glossy green, and its white flowers and its 

 berries hanging on quite late in the fall make it a very interest- 

 ing shrub. It is the viburnum lantago. 



Prof. Green : The viburnum tomentosa is also a good thing. 



Mr. W. J. Moyle : Prof. Green has had a variegated variety 

 top-worked. Is that hardy? 



Prof. Green : It stands very well. 



Mr. Moyle : Are these lilacs that you recommend not slow 

 growing things? In our climate the blossoms are injured by 

 frost. 



Mr. Harrison : The beauty is they do not bloom as early 

 as the old kind, and we have several sorts of them which bloom 

 gloriously. At first I was not favorably impressed with the 

 vilosa, as it had only a little insignificant blossom, but now I 

 consider it one of the best I have, and it is of indescribable 

 beauty. 



Mr. Moyle : I was a very enthusiastic lilac man. I was* in 

 a place where I took care of a lot of seedlings that had been 

 sent to a gentleman from France. We had a row of several 

 hundred, and I could pick out a hundred different varieties in 

 color. Any one looking at them would hardly notice these 

 variations, but I never tired looking at those lilacs. I procured 

 everything I could get hold of and brought them west to Wis- 

 consin. I set out a lot of them, all of those improved double 

 lilacs and most beautiful varieties, and I am sorry to say they 

 have not been satisfactory with me. Even the Charles X. 



