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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Some hints. Raise your own evergreens. Take care of 

 them. Transplant when two years old in a nursery near your 

 house. Cultivate well. Let them grow two years, then trans- 

 plant again and let them stand two years. Then you have a fine 

 lot of matted roots. 



Take the time when it is cool and the ground is moist. 



Your main dependence 

 should be the bull, or pon- 

 derosa, pine. Always get 

 seed from the Black Hills, 

 for we have found seed 

 from the foot hills of Colo- 

 rado won't do. Prof. Green 

 found that out to his sor- 

 row. 



Don't plant Norway 

 spruce, black spruce or 

 Eastern white spruce or 

 white pine on your Western 

 prairie. 



The pinus aristata and 



pinus flexilis will do well. 



So will the mountain pine 



if you want a dwarf for 



your yard. E n g 1 e m a n 



spruce will do well if you 



can put it where it can be 



protected from the two 



o'clock sun. The pinus con- 



torta, or lodge pole pine, 



which is the main tree 



growing in the Yellowstone 



Black Hiiis spmce. National Park, ought to be 



tested. It is very hardy, growing where there are frequent 



frosts all summer, and it can pack the most trees on an acre of 



any tree you ever saw. 



But put your main dependence on the bull pine. I know 

 them, have raised them by the hundred thousand. Amateurs 

 have raised in several instances 5,000 from a pound of seed and 

 the seed costs $2.00 per pound. They are the identical tree the 

 good Lord invented for all our bleak Northwest. 



The most beautiful tree that grows is the concolor, or silver 



