HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 399 



Mr. Harris presented the following list of hardy trees and 

 shrubs for general planting, which was on motion adopted: 



LIST OF NATIVE TEEES AND SHRUBS. 



The following list of trees is suggested as most suitable for the 

 purposes named, on account of hardiness and adaptation: 



PARKS. 



Sugar maple, elm, burr oak, butternut, hackberry, linden, 

 ash, box elder, white spruce, white pine, Scotch pine, mountain 

 ash, tamarac. 



Shrubs: Blue beech, wahoo, choke cherry, buffalo berry, 

 thorn apple, service berry, fine bark, round leaf, Cornell, red 

 osier, dogwood, red cedar and catalpa. 



LAWNS. 



Elm, sugar maple, linden, American larch, white birch, yel' 

 low birch, white pine, white spruce, arbor vitse, Kentucky coffee 

 tree, Rocky mountain pine. 



Shrubs: High bush cranberry, choke cherry, sumac, wahoo, 

 hazel, Cornell, buffalo berry. 



STREETS. 



Elm, sugar maple, ash, linden and hackberry. 



COUNTRY ROADS. 



Elm, sugar maple, ash, black walnut, hackberry, Kentucky 

 coffee tree. For prairie regions add box elder. 



SCHOOL GROUNDS. 



Elm, sugar maple, ash, linden, white spruce, white pine, box 

 elder. 



CEMETERIES. 



White pine, white or blue spruce, arbor vitse, and native 

 weeping willow. 



In this connection we desire to call attencion to the import- 

 ance of observing Arbor day, and to the following official proc- 

 lamation by Hon. Wm. R. Merriam, the governor of this state. 

 — [Secictary.] 



