APPLE BLIGHT IN REVIEW. 2 1/ 



Prof. Robertson : At the time when the blight appears for the 

 first time. When you are going through the orchard in the fall, when 

 the active work stops in the fall and the leaves are still on the trees, 

 you can see a distinct dividing line between the diseased and the 

 healthy parts, and you w^ant to cut out everything. At any time we 

 find a blighted branch it should be removed, and the cut should be 

 protected. 



LATEST EXPERIENCE WITH THE RARER CONIFERS. 



A. NORBY, MADISOX, S. D. 



Most any evergreen is rare in some communities, although nicely 

 improved and well farmed. This is the case not only in our section 

 of the country but in other states as well. A minister wrote me from 

 Ruthven, Iowa, that he had never known the red cedar to have 

 been tried in that vicinity and states that he has lived there twenty 

 years. 



The bull, or rock, pine (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum), yet 

 little known in many places, is the only pine native of our state and 

 Nebraska. As a drouth resisting tree it is scarcely equaled. Stuck 

 out in the tough prairie sod without any further care whatever it 

 takes right hold, looks thrifty, makes a fair growth and seems de- 

 termined to make saw logs. Unlike the Scotch and jack pines, it 

 does not lean over or look yellow, but grows erect and keeps its 

 lively green color the year around. 



The general experience is that the bu^ pine is hard to transplant, 

 but of late we have had very good success both in moving it in the 

 nursery and when set in the final plantation. It wants to be moved 

 in the spring before the new growth is much started, and to be fre- 

 quently transplanted or root pruned. I suppose it makes some dif- 

 ference on what soil it grows ; ours is a fine mellow loam, very favor- 

 able for the development of fibrous roots. 



The western white pine (Pinus flexilis) has not been on trial 

 more than four years, but has so far not shown any weak points. It 

 is one of the prettiest of pines and promising. 



Among tree men the idea prevails that the red pine (Pinus 

 resinosa) is better adapted to dry soils and trying situations than 

 the white. While this may be true in some sections, it is not so with 

 me. If I were to choose between the two, I would prefer the white ; 

 still neither one is strictly reliable wdth us, but when the white pine 

 is at home I fail to see any reason for planting other species except 

 for variety. 



The Colorado blue, or silver, spruce is a very desirable tree every 

 way — remarkably hardy and well adapted to the conditions of the 



