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leaves out right down on the trunk first, and the top is the last — 
to leave out. tt 
The President: What is the value compared with the elm? we r 
Judge Moyer: Itis as good as the elm, but it will not make he 
as large a tree. 
Mr. Allan: It is used as a street tree. 
Judge Moyer: I have been very much pleased with the rock 
elm. It grows very well with us; it is a native of the Minne- iB: : 
sota valley. 
Mr. Wedge: Does it grow as fast as the white elm? 
Judge Moyer: No, I think not. 
The President: It is a handsome tree. 
Judge Moyer: Yes, it is a very handsome tree. 
The President: What do you think of the black ash? 
Judge Moyer: I have never tried that. 
soil. 
Judge Moyer: It grows fifty miies north of us on the Chip- 
pewa river. Our native ash is the green ash. I have heard it 
called the white ash, but it isnot. I do not know of any tree to 
plant on the prairie better than our native ash. 
Mr. Underwood: In regard to this paper, I heartily concur 
with Mr. Wedge that it isa most excellent and valuable paper, 
and I think our society is exceedingly fortunate to have a gen- 
tleman in its membership who is capable of producing such an 
excellent paper. A word about the ash. I have been trying 
to locate the different kinds of ash, determine them definitely, 
and Ihave a block of trees that I think were taken from the 
woods as young trees and planted out. Among them I had 
rows of ash, elm, maple, box elder and different kinds, and 
they got mixed upsome. A 1inan brought those trees along one 
day and wanted to sell them, and we bought them as lawn trees. 
I was struck this summer by the very dark appearance of 
six of these trees. I said, ‘‘ There are some handsome maples.” 
I had not noticed them before. They were probably four 
inches in diameter or over, large, thrifty, nice trees, and as I 
approached them I saw they were not maples. I looked at the 
top and concluded they were butternuts, or some nut bearing 
tree. When I got nearer to them still I found they were a vari- 
ety of ash. I had long been wanting to determine what the ash 
was that we are growing here, and, so far as I have been able 
to locate it, it seems to be the common ash we have been grow- 
ing is the green ash. I used to call it the white ash, and I was — ‘ 
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