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Mr. Older: This is not so very important. It is my opinion that 
there are thousands of acres of hard maple growing in Minnesota. In the 
southwestern corner there are some hard maple trees that have been trans- 
planted on dry loamy soil, and they are growing nicely, but they are difficult 
to grow and keep growing. 
Mr. Taylor: J have black walnut that are doing remarkably well. 
The President: Do you think they grow well enough to do for street 
ornamentation. 
Mr. Taylor: I presume that would-depend on the soil and location. 
Mr. M. P. McColly: In regard to the growing of hard maple, I live 
in the hard maple belt, and years ago my father planted a number of hard’ 
maple shade trees, and as Mr. Underwood stated, those that were exposed 
died, but those that were sheltered grew nicely. In_ pastures where grass is 
growing around the trees the maples are dying. It is become a question of 
locality. We are right in the maple belt, but only seven or eight miles. 
east of us you cannot find a maple, so I think we must have clay subsoil to: 
grow the maple and must have shade and water to keep them growing. 
Mr. Clark: Last year I read a paper about growing trees in Dakota, 
and Mr. Underwood asked me a question about evergreens in Dakota. I 
did not know anything about them, but I want to say that this fall, in 
October, I was going up the I. & D. division of the Northwestern road from 
Salem to Huron, and in that: part of South Dakota it was very dry this 
past season, their crops were almost a complete failure, and I noticed one 
nice batch of evergreens near the railroad track, about an acre of them, 
and they were doing better than they did a year ago. I keep my eye on 
those trees, I go up there twice a year, and from what I have seen there and’ 
at one or two other little places, I think the evergreens are going to prove a 
better thing for the dry country than any deciduous trees. 
The President: What kind of evergreens are they? 
Mr. Clark: I cannot say; I am not posted on evergreens. They seem 
to be a mixture. 
WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
ANNUAL MEETING, 1899. 
FRANK YAHNKE, DELEGATE, WINONA. 
The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society met at Madison, February 
6,7 and 8. President Franklin Johnson opened the meeting Tuesday morn- 
ing with a cordial greeting to those present. 
Your delegate was cordially received, made an honorary member for the 
year and invited to take part in the discussions. 
Tuesday morning was a nursery session, and the program was well car- 
ried out. F. C. Edwards delivered an address on the nursery business from 
the grower’s and agent’s standpoint and the best way to conduct it. He said 
in part: The nursery should be located near a town with two or more 
railroads. The soil should be clay and sandy loam. He thought that it was 
not necessary to raise everything offered for sale. If Wisconsin nurserymer 
would supply the state, they must visit their customers at least once a 
year, and if stock has not grown, through the fault of the seller, supply new 
without charge, and in all things make the interest of the buyer their own. 
1. G. Kellogg, on the question, “Shall Nurserymen Buy Southern or 
