70 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Chairman : This is a very interesting and carefully prepared 

 report and contains much that might be discussed to advantage. 

 I would say to those who are not familiar with the names as given 

 by Mr. Moyer that they are harmless. They are only names. 

 (Laughter.) There are a whole lot of names that I am not up to 

 yet Judge Moyer has the time and the disposition to read all the 

 journals and bulletins, and he knows how to keep them straight. 

 Well, that is all right, he deserves credit for what he does. Those 

 confounded botanists, if they only had to sell nursery stock they 

 would not be changing the names all the time. I have got way be- 

 hind, and I am going back to the old fashioned names, because the 

 botanists have a way of changing the names around to suit them- 

 selves, and I am going back to the common names. 



Mr. A. Brackett: I would like to know the difference between 

 the dogw^ood that grows in the swamps and the dogwood that grows 

 on the high land. 



Mr. Moyer: There is some difference, but generally they are 

 almost identical. The one that grows in swamps sprouts from the 

 roots. 



Mr. Brackett : If both were planted on the same kind of ground 

 would they do equally well ? 



Mr. Moyer: I think so. It will do very well on high ground 

 if you give it cultivation. 



Mr. Yahnke: I would like to ask Mr. Moyer to name three 

 shrubs and three evergreens that could be recommended for plant- 

 ing in his section on school grounds and farm homes, and that would 

 itand bad treatment. 



Mr. Moyer: After the name of each variety that grows at 

 Montevideo I put a cross, while those that grow in other parts of 

 the state are not so marked. 



Mr. C. G. Patten (Iowa) : I would like to ask Judge Moyer 

 whether the white barked linden is a tree that succeeds well in the 

 west. 



Mr. Moyer : I have not seen it. 



Mr. Patten : I saw one on a trip I made to South Dakota that 

 was very beautiful. The man had the common linden, the gray 

 bark, and also had this variety which was apparently as white as 

 the Cottonwood. I do not know the name of it, only he called it the 

 white linden. 



Mr. C. E. Older : I would like to ask Mr. Moyer, if instead of 

 having this long list of hard names whether it would not be better to 

 have a list of about twenty-five that could be generally recommended. 

 Would it not be better to give only a list ot the hardiest instead of 

 including all those on that list? 



Prof. Hansen : I think Judge Moyer and others would reduce 

 the list if Mr. Older would reduce the list of apples to twenty-five. 



Mr. Moyer: So far as my own experience is concerned I would 

 move to strike the Norway spruce from the list. 



Mr. Yahnke : I was never in a horticultural meeting where 

 there was anything good said of the Norway spruce, but all the 

 same it is the best tree I have got. I was in Montevideo, and I 



