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farm to examine the trees. A visit to the farm is all that i» 

 needed to en.able anyone to recognize his ability to grow the 

 trees, and their adaptability for (cultivation in Southern Dakota. 

 We found here blocks of trees of various ages, with scarcely an 

 inferior or missing tree and ranging from one to four or five feet 

 high. The varieties were Austrian, Scotch and White Pine; 

 Blue, White and Norway Spruce; Balsam Fir, Red Cedar and 

 American Arbor Vitse or White Cedar in large quantities, and 

 some others in less numbers. If the j^eople within a radius of a 

 day's travel would procure their trees from him instead of 

 ordering them from some foreign tree agent, and select a favor- 

 able time to secure and jjlant them and afterwards take care of 

 them, there is no good reason why ninety-nine out of every hun- 

 dred should not live and «io well. This farm is also well pro- 

 tected and sheltered with windbreaks of deciduous trees. 



In the afternoon and evening sessions other jjapers and addresses 

 %ere given upon different classes of fruit culture, and the facts 

 and experiences brought out in the course of the following 

 discussions tended to strengthen the belief that strawberries, 

 currants, several varieties of raspberries, blackberries and 

 grapes, where given winter protection and summer mulching, 

 could be succesfully grown. 



The list of evergreens recommended for planting for forests 

 upon the prairies were Scotch Pine, White Pine, White Spruce, 

 Red Cedar, Arbor Vitse. The most ornamental for trial, Colorado 

 Blue Spruce, Dwarf Rocky Mountain Pine, Douglass Spruce ; 

 deciduous trees for groves and timber. White or Green Ash, 

 Box Elder, White Willow, Cottonwood, European Larch, Elm, 

 Wild Black Cherry, White Birch and Sugar Maple. For wind- 

 breaks, White Willow. For fruits, strawberries, Crescent 

 Seedling, fertilized with Downer's Prolific, Chas. Downing, or 

 Glendale; grapes. Concord, Moore's Early, Worden, Delaware; 

 apples. Duchess and Wealthy, for orchards; Tetofsky for gar- 

 den, Siberian and Hybrids, Virginia and Whitney No. 20. For 

 trial, Gideon's Florence. From the best information that could 

 be gleaned it was thought best to recommend the following 

 Russian varieties for trial in limited qualities, when they could 

 be procured from reliable parties, viz. : Hibernal, Ostrokoff's 

 Glass, Antonovka, Red or Yellow Anis, Green Streaked, Long- 

 field's White Pigeon and Charlamoff. Only the best varieties of 

 the native wild plums were recommended. 



All lists for adoption were brought forward by committees 



