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writer had tried fifteen times to raise a beech in South Dakota with- 

 out success. He had found the ash a very satisfactory tree but 

 hard to transplant. Green ash was infested by borers. He found 

 the Kentucky coffee tree to be a very satisfactory lawn tree; it is so 

 open as to not kill out the grass. The Lyriodendron will not grow. 

 The Russian mulberry is a success; the weeping forms have not 

 been tried long enough. He does not like the box elder; compares 

 it to a Ben Davis apple. He has had very good success with the 

 golden oak (Quercus concordia). Ginkgo tree is not satisfactory; 

 grows slowly. The linden is very satisfactory; the red twig variety 

 is doing well. He reports that every variety of elm is hardy. 

 Ulmus Montana, the Belgian elm and the Siberian elm are very 

 satisfactory. Purple and golden elms do very well. Carolina pop- 

 lar is unsatisfactory. Japan quince is very satisfactory. Weigelia 

 winter-kills. Hibiscus is not a success. Hydrangea does well when 

 sheltered. The high bush cranberry is very hardy. Philadelphus is 

 very hardy. Spiraea Van Houtii is the standard shrub. Scotch 

 laburnum does well. Golden elder has lived two winters. 



John H. Miller, of Huron, has made a success in raising Ameri- 

 can mountain ash. He has the wild olive thirty-five feet high. 

 The catalpa is doing well with him. Lilacs and Juneberries are 

 doing well'. Choke cherries are a success, and buckthorn is an 

 iron-clad. White cut-leaved birch is perfectly hardy. Trailing 

 juniper is the most beautiful thing he has on his grounds. Primus 

 triloba is extremely hardy and a free bloomer. 



I. J. Nudd, of Sioux Falls, gave a flattering account of the 

 profits of vegetable gardening. When questioned, the fact came 

 out that profits depended very largely on the man. 



Thomas A. Hobart, of Sioux Falls, read a paper on "New Points 

 in Vegetable Growing." He plants everything in hills, except 

 beans. Does not use stable manure on garden crops ; puts it on his 

 corn. Uses nitrate of soda for fertilizer. Mulches cauliflower with 

 stable manure. Plants Quarter Century and Fordhook Fancy to- 

 matoes and Rocky Ford and Fordhook Early melons. Thinks 

 highly of Hansen's No. 3 (muskmelon). Prof. Hansen says Jennie 

 Lind is the earliest melon. 



A. Norby, of Madison, had set Norway spruce once but lost 

 them all in 1 894-5. That winter also used up his arbor vitae. His 

 black spruce were gone too; poor tree. White spruce were doing 

 well; got them of Douglas. Blue spruce from Colorado are hardier 

 than from eastern nurseries. Black Hills spruce, and Pinus pon- 

 derosa from the Black Hills, are good. Jack pine from Minnesota 



