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Mr. Jewett : Do you find that the hackberry stands drouth? 



Mr. Gregg: It does as far as we have tried it. That is a tree 

 of later trial. 



Mr. Terry : I have tried it thirty years, and it is just as good as 

 ever. 



Mr. Jewett : I have had the same experience. My elms have 

 been killed, but my hackberry has stood perfectly well. They are a 

 pleasure to look at, and they have stood the drouth better than any 

 tree I have. I have trees eighteen inches in diameter. 



Mr. Dolan : That is a fine tree, too, for a hedge. 



Mr. Jewett : Yes, that is the way I use it. I think the value of 

 that kind of a tree will be appreciated fully as much by people in 

 towns, because they can grow it as a windbreak more quickly than 

 ' the willow in some places and get the protection they need. 



The President : It is not only a beautiful tree, but it is a good 

 bee tree. 



Mr. Poore : I would like to ask Mr. Gregg how he likes the 

 soft maple? 



Mr. Gregg: I do not like the soft maple at all. They are too 

 tender. The limbs break all to pieces. I have a few, but I do not 

 like to take them up. However, I do not like the tree. 



Mr. Dolan: Does the Russian poplar sun scald? 



Mr. Gregg: I have had no trouble. There might be trouble 

 where they stand alone, but mine are growing with other varieties. 



Mr. Dolan : In the town of Breckenridge they sun scald very 

 badly. 



The President : They grow a great many in that arid section 

 in Washington, but they call it the eastern poplar there. 



Mr. Gregg: We grow the mountain ash very nicely, and that, 

 if exposed, will sun scald badly, hut where we have it it does beau- 

 tifully. 



I want to state that I have not succeeded with the raspberry and 

 the blackberry, and I hope before I go away I may get suggestions 

 in regard to that matter. It is not because they cannot be grown, 

 but simply because I don't know how. We have with the help of 

 Prof. Green made a great success with plums. The greatest success 

 we have had was right in a grove. Plums have been a wonderful 

 success there. It was one of the most wonderful sights I have ever 

 seen. The plum trees were loaded with fruit, and the sun shining 

 down on those plums made an exceedingly beautiful sight. 



Mr. Poore : Do you have them about cottonwood ? 



Mr. Gregg: No, sir; I hate cottonwood. It always grows na- 

 tive by water courses, but it also grows on high land. Its limbs 

 will hardly stand a good wind. 



Mr. C. B. Waddell : Among what kind of trees do you grow 

 your plums ? 



Mr. Gregg: Almost exclusively elms. I am speaking from 

 what experience I have had, but you cannot imagine how we appre- 

 ciate those plums. It is a wonderful stimulus to have fruit to eat. 

 Now just a word or two about some other fruit: for instance, ap- 

 ples. There is no difficulty at all about apple growing. I set out 



