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ously injured by saw fiies, and it makes a fine specimen on the grounds at 
the station. 
Salix Aurew (Golden willow).—This is another of the Russian willows 
which is very pretty, and a rapid, healthy grower, making a large tree. 
Its chief beauty is in its golden bark, which is very beautiful during the 
winter and spring months. 
Salix Lamsifolia (Laurel-leaved willow).—Very beautiful with its bright, 
glossy, dark green leaves. It is attractive on the lawn, and valuable for 
street or timber planting. 
Douglas’ Golden Arbor Vitae—Not new, but not much planted. It is 
very hardy, and the most beautiful golden kind we have. : 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. C. L. Smith: I call to mind some investigations made 
this last summer, and I thought that while this paper was 
fresh in mind that it would be a good time to refer to them. 
Mr. Nagel also referred to the fact that many things were 
bought because they were high priced, and that brought my 
experience of last summer into my mind also. During the sea- — 
son I had occasion to drive several times each week from my 
home in Minneapolis to my home at Lake Minnetonka—beyond 
Lake Minnetonka—and in doing so I would sometimes go one 
road and sometimes another, and in fact would hardly drive 
over the same road twice in succession. I was familiar with 
the plants growing on the grounds and cultivated around the 
homes on the different roads, and I want to say that for our 
uses here in Minnesota, that our native plants are worth more 
than all the plants we can bring in from anywhere else. Now 
I call to mind in partieular one place, where I have no doubt 
hundreds of dollars have been spent by the owner in the plant- | 
ing and cultivation of the grounds with high priced novelties, 
very largely from Eastern nurseries, and yet, with nothing but 
native shrubs, and plants and vines, and no cultivation except 
that given by a few cows and pigs, there was a finer landscape 
effect right over in the pasture beyond his door yard, than you 
got in his door yard. And more than that: during the latter 
days of September I drove with a party of Eastern friends 
about the parks of Minneapolis, around the lakes Calhoun and 
Harriet,and then out by one road,and back by another to Excel- 
sior and Wayzata. Some of my friends were ladies and gen- 
tlemen who had traveled quite extensively in America and in 
Kurope. Among them all there was no’ dissenting from this 
opinion, that for landscape effect the native plants, shrubs,and 
