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pine and quite a variety of pines. Pines were always a hobby 

 with me. About that time the Austrian seemed to be very poor. 

 I did not know whether it was on account of the severe winters 

 or just what the matter was, but they looked so poor that I 

 threatened to cut them out, and did cut some out. The Austrian 

 has grown very little more than the Scotch. The last year was 

 a verj' hard year on our Scotch pines; in fact, it was a hard 3'ear 

 on all our evergreens. The Scotch looks poor, but the Austrian 

 stands today very handsome indeed. They did not sear at all, 

 and they have every appearance now, and have had for the last 

 six or eight years, of being our best pine. I was quite interested 

 in the Austrian pine. 



Mr. Somerville: I want to ask a question about that. I have 

 some Austrian pine that the winter will kill, and others that 

 are not affected at all, and I would like to know if the different 

 locations where the seeds come from does not make a difference 

 with the Austrian pine. What causes it I don't know. Some are 

 tender and will not stand our climate, and others seem to stand 

 it perfectly' well. 



Judge L. R. Moyer: There are two evergreens I would like to say 

 a good word for; one is the red cedar and the other is the mountain 

 pine of Europe, known as the Pinus Montana. The latter seems to be 

 one of the hardiest pines we have tried on the prairies, and you all 

 know that the red cedar grows wild in many places. If you will 

 plant in the northwest corner of your door yard an irregular clump 

 of red cedar trees and then plant around it, in a way to support it, 

 an irregular row of this dwarf pine, you will have an extremely 

 ornamental group of evergreens, a group of trees that you can de- 

 pend on to live. The red cedar is accustomed to dry climates. The 

 red cedar will turn brown in winter, but it never dies, while the 

 mountain pine will stay green all winter. 



Mr. Wedge: How are j'^our Avistrian pines? 



Judge Moyer: They are doing very well. 



Mr. Wedge: Do they look any better than the Scotch? 



Judge Moyer: No, I don't think the}^ look better than the Scotch. 



Pres. Underwood: How close would you plant the red cedar in 

 the group you referred to? 



Judge Moyer: I would not plant it too close. I would plant the 

 group six to eight feet apart, three or four of them, and then a half 

 dozen of those mountain pines around it. 



Mr. E. M. Sherman, (Iowa): I would like to say a little in regard 

 to the red cedar. Some thirty years ago in Iowa my father made 

 quite a screen of red cedar. The trees were kept clipped, and for a 

 few years they did nicely, but soon the trees began to dry up, and 

 perhaps the limbs on one side of the tree would die off, and the up- 

 shot of the matter was they were finally grubbed out. The finest 

 windbreak I ever saw was a hedge of red cedar. The owner kept up 

 the hedge in the finest condition, but he had to fill in continuallj', 

 and finally he became disgusted and put it on the brush pile. 



Judge Moyer: I would not advise any one to plant it for a hedge. 



