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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE PONDEROSA PINE. 



A. NORBY, MADISON, S. D. 



This tree is known as bull pine, rock pine or Black Hills pine. 

 It occupies the driest and most exposed sites throughout the Rocky 

 Mountain region, the Black Hills and northwestern Nebraska, where 

 it is growing in the sod of the semi-arid tablelands. But it 

 might be of more interest to know how it behaves in this part of 



THE PONDEROSA PINE. 



South Dakota. The writer started the first ponderosa pines from 

 the seed here in 1890. Some of that seed was obtained from the 

 Department of Agriculture, and some was collected in Custer 

 county, Montana. These trees are now ten to fifteen feet high, 

 vigorous and thrifty. 



The only time that any died was in the winter of 1894-95, which 

 was very trying on evergreens ; seventy-five per cent of the Nor- 

 way, or red, pine died, and arbor vitae and Norway spruce went 

 out by the wholesale. Of the ponderosa, about twenty-five per cent 

 failed to come through, and most of them were more or less colored. 

 One specimen kept its pleasant green color then the season through 



