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_ COMMITTEE ON RUSSIAN APPLE NOMENCLATURE. 381. 
_ of 1872-73 and 1884-85 to weed out the list and test their true hardiness. 
This would clear the horticultural atmosphere and make the task of 
the fruit grower an easier one in the matter of choosing varieties. 
both native and imported. 
WHAT THE COMMISSION AIMS TO DO. 
- The work of the commission was not to recommend varieties for 
any particular locality, as that must be left to the state and local 
horticultural societies, but to revise and simplify the nomenclature 
of the varieties that have come into chief prominence in various 
parts of the northwest. As opportunity permits the work of re- 
vision will be continuoad. 
THE TRANSPLANTING AND SUBSEQUENT CARE OF 
EVERGREENS. 
J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 
Almost every person can appreciate the beauty of a fine evergreen 
or, better still, groups of fine evergreens about a country residence. 
Those who cannot so appreciate and are able to have them, who can 
be contented to exist in one of the many dreary, desolate, bare and 
unprotected farmhouses that are so common throughout our state, 
with nothing like tree or shrub to refresh his eyes or cool the heat 
-of the summer sun, or shield from winter cold, are very far — 
the saving grace of horticulture. 
Evergreens are particularly valuable for the purposes of orna- 
mentation, since they are always objects of beauty, and summer and 
winter alike they lend us their shelter. For shelter belts and hedges, 
they are far more effective than deciduous trees, because they afford 
the shelter and protection in winter, when itis most needed. We are 
glad to note that an increasing interest in their planting as well as 
in other tree planting, both for ornament and utility, is being 
awakened. 
My experience has convinced me that while evergreens can be 
transplanted at any season of the year with comparative safety if 
proper precautions are used, yet the very best time for the operation 
is May, when the soil has become somewhat warm and friable and 
the buds are just beginning to start, but before growth has really 
commenced. If the work must be done before the proper time, say 
during the fore part of April, the trees should be protected from the 
drying and cold winds until growth begins, or the result will be 
that many of them are pretty sure to die. As the name implies, 
they are always in foliage and present a vast amount of surface, 
through which the drying winds are searching and evaporating the 
moisture, causing asevere draft upon the vitality that can be greatly 
obviated by giving protection. This protection may be burlap or 
other cloth tacked to stakes driven in on ,the south, north and west 
sides of the trees, or a few laths or boards driven into the ground; 
or old barrels without heads may be set over the trees. Anything 
that will shield from the_bright sun and break the force of the wind 
will answer. 
