not satisfied as to what those half dozen trees were. I got out 
our botany and our encyclopedias, and Henderson; I got all 
‘the authority I could, and asked everybody I saw, especially 
woodsmen; I think they are usually good authority, men accus- 
tomed to the woods; and I finally located those half dozen trees 
as being black ash. They were certainly thrifty. growing in 
gravelly soil, and never had particularly good care, but under 
the same circumstances that the other trees were planted 
they were stronger growing than almost anything else, stronger 
_ than any ash I ever saw, and a very handsome tree. If Judge 
_ Moyer can give me. any light on the subject as to whether they 
di are black ash from the poor description I have given of them, 
gor anything with regard to this common ash that grows along 
Be ‘the Mississippi river, whether it should be called the green ash 
a or what it should be called, I would be very glad to know. I 
- noticed this, there isa variation in all trees such as the elm and 
ash. Take the seed and plant it and you will find there is a 
< great deal of variation in the trees; you will get a tree that is 
different from anything else. For instance, take this tree we 
4 call the green ash. You see them growing together, and in 
fifty trees there will apparently be a half dozen varieties, but 
E they are all grown from the seed of the trees growing along the 
_ Mississippi river. Perhaps Judge Moyer can tell us more 
F about the ash. 
Mr. Arthur Bryant, (Illinois) :What do you think of the plus 
_ ash? 
on Judge Moyer: I am not familiar with it. 
_ The President: I do not think I have ever seen it. 
came to the state and am not acquainted with eastern Minne- 
_ sota. Ihave seen the black ash growing at Glenwood in the 
E western part of the state, on bottom lands where springs come 
p down. It is a longer lived tree that the green ash. I noticed 
when Prof. Arthur reported on the ash trees in Iowa, he re- 
ported that nearly all of the ash trees in lowa were green ash, 
and I think we will have to come to the same conclusion in Min- 
} ‘nesota, in the western and southwestern part of the state, at 
mueast, I do not know the white ash well enough to know 
"whether it is common in this neighborhood or not. Ido not 
believe there is much white ash in the state, although Prof. 
~ MacMillan reported i in a bulletin thatit grows throughout Min- 
4 “nesota. 
. Judge Moyer: I have lived in western Minnesota since I 
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