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cedar that is a native of western Iowa and Dakota and western Min- 

 nesota and the native cedar g^rowingf in Illinois, as there is between 

 the peach tree and the Duchess apple. At one time I received from 

 a man in southern Illinois a thousand trees of red cedar. I planted 

 them, nursed them as best I could, and to iny surprise not one in 

 fifty amounted to anything. They gradually died out and were 

 total failures; whereas, I have taken trees from the Cedar river in 

 Iowa and have never lost one of them; and as you go further west 

 in Iowa and Dakota you find them perfect trees. The whole matter 

 resolves itself into the question as to where the seeds grew, where 

 they were native at the time they were grown. 



Mr. Wedge: I would like to have our president say a word or two 

 in regard to the hedge we have heard considerable about. I think 

 he knows considerable about a hedge that is a substitute for the 

 arbor vitte. 



Pres. Underwood: I presume you mean the juniper. We have 

 been seriously affected with the drought with all of our trees. Ever- 

 greens, fruit trees and all native trees I know of, such as the bur oak, 

 seem to be seriously affected by the drought, and our arbor vitse 

 hedges have proved a failure there on that account, much to our an- 

 noyance and sorrow. We have this juniper savin (Juniperus sabina) 

 for a low growing hedge that seems to be quite hardy and seems to 

 stand the drought perfectly. Whether it will prove a success in all 

 parts of the state I cannot say. It does not require very much 

 moisture to make a success of growing it, and it is a very handsome 

 variety of a low growing hedge plant. 



Mrs. Anna Bonniwell: Is it anything like the Osage orange? 



Pres. Underwood: Oh, no; it is an evergreen. It belongs to the 

 juniper family. 



Mr. C. G. Patten, (Iowa): How high does it grow? 



Pres. Underwood: It does not grow over five feet,andit can easily 

 be sheared down to one foot. 



Mr. Wedge: Is it the same variety that was reported on bj' Mr. 

 Ayers, of Carleton? I think he calls it by the same name. He rep- 

 resented it as growing native over the sand hills in the severest 

 situations in Dakota and Minnesota. 



Pres. Underwood: Perhaps it is. We have a great many varieties 

 of juniper, but I have never seen anything like this. I am satisfied, 

 however, that there are many wild junipers that are very beautiful 

 and desirable. I have some under cultivation, and they are different 

 from this variety. 



Mr. G. J. Kellogg, (Wisconsin): This variety is a deeper green than 

 anything I have seen in the juniper line. 



Mrs. Kennedy: How do you propagate it? 



Pres. Underwood: We propagate by layers. 



Dr. Frisselle: Is it a native of this state? 



Pres. Underwood: Yes, the juniper is found all over the North- 

 west. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: Does it stand drought better than the red cedar? 



Pres. Underwood: I am speaking of the prostrate juniper. 



Mr. Smith: Does this dwarf yariety stand drouth any better than 

 the red cedar? 



