305 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



MY EXPERIENCE WITH TREES IN MANITOBA. 



THOS. MCLENNAN, BELMONT, MAN. 



The first year I planted nothing but Manitoba ash-leafed maple, 

 or box elder, and find they do very well, but they are not a very 

 nice tree. Two years ago I commenced planting spruce, a native 

 variety from the forest, and I have had all kinds of bad luck with 

 them. I planted in 1899 thirty-six, and out ef that number I only 

 had a possible six living the next spring ; they are doing finely. Last 

 spring I went again to the bush and brought home sixty-one trees 

 and planted them also in good warm soil, and out of that amount I 

 have this year seven. So I have found out there is no money in 

 getting bush trees. 



Just to show you the difference between bush evergreens and 

 nursery trees, I bought from a man' in Brandon, H. L. Patmore, one 

 Scotch pine, one balsam fir, one arbor vitae, one white spruce, all 

 2.y 2 feet high, for experimental purposes ; also four more white 

 spruce from A. P. Stevenson, Nelson, Man., and they are all doing 

 well. So now I am going in for nursery stock altogether. 



I see by Professor Waldron, in the Horticulturist, that he says 

 we are growing white pine at Brandon, Man. This is a mistake. 

 There is no white pine growing in Brandon. There is Rocky Moun- 

 tain pine, which he must h&ve taken for white pine. There is a grove 

 of Scotch pine here, six miles from town growing and arbor vitae 

 and balsam fir and spruce, all about 17 feet high, and there was 

 some white pine planted at the same time. They are only 3 feet 

 high yet and awful scraggy things, and they are in a fine sheltered 

 place. I am getting some white pine this spring, and I will be able 

 to report on them in a few years and will let you know how they 

 are doing. 



Native plums and all kinds of currants do well here, such as 

 Lee's Prolific, Naples, Champion, White Grape, etc. ; also straw- 

 berries — and, in fact, we can grow anything after we get a shelter 

 belt established. We can grow some kinds of hardy apples. We 

 have all kinds of lilacs and honeysuckles ; also caragana, roses, sweet 

 briar, Virginia creeper and numerous other things all doing well. 



