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that has not a pretty good windbreak. Now, in my lectures, 

 I tell the people how to grow them, so they will have a pro 

 tection for their stock and buildings and beautify their homes. 

 I do not wish to occupy your time, and will therefore say no 

 more on the subject. 



Mr. Smith: I think it would be proper that we should return 

 to Prof. Pernow the thanks of the Minnesota State Horticul- 

 tural Society and the State Forestry Association, for his able 

 address delivered to us this evening. I make that as a motion. 



Motion carried unanmiously. 



Mr. Alfred Terry: I do not believe it oaght to appear upon 

 the records of the society that evergreens are the only trees 

 to be planted in the state, and not have anything said about 

 the incalculable value of the deciduous trees. 



Mr. Somerville: I did not mean that you should think for a 

 single moment I was opposed to those trees. However, we 

 prefer the evergreen for its beauty and ornamental purposes, 

 and one of them will give more shade and break the wind 

 better than half a dozen common trees, as Mr. Harris knows. 



Prof. Fernow: I certainly did not wish to be considered as 

 discouraging anybody's tree planting, but I would discourage 

 the planting of too many trees, because they are a discourage- 

 ment in the end. I want to encourage the planting of ever- 

 green trees on the prairies, for the reason that no other trees 

 will stand the climatic changes as well as the evergreens. 

 They are the most difficult to start, but when started they are 

 started forever, while your deciduous trees will die of summer 

 or winter drouths in these western countries, when they are 

 ten or twelve or fifteen years old. 



President Underwood: Professor, what deciduous trees will 

 stand the drouth the best? 



Prof. Fernow: I have a fund from the Prussian govern- 

 ment for the purpose of securing them some American trees. 

 They asked me to suggest what they might experiment with 

 that they did not already have, and I proposed the green ash 

 and the bull pine for drouthy situations. • They replied they 

 had tried both and could not use either. (Laughter.) You 

 are well aware that the green ash is the only tree that will 

 stand the dry condition that exists here. The bull pine grows 

 in the very driest situations we can imagine, next to the cedar, 

 but in Germany it would not do. It is very difficult to speak 

 of such thing in a general way. I believe the most profitable 



