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it successfully. The Bitter Sweet is a fine hardy climber, with very heavy, dark 

 green leaves; it also has a profusion of Ijerries that hang on all winter ; they are. a 

 bright orange or scarlet, growing in clusters and look very pretty. The climbing 

 honeysuckle or woodbine, is another hardy, pretty climber that flowers freely in 

 June and July. Wild grape vines, also Clinton, Oswego and some other sorts are 

 good to cover summer houses, trellises, screens or dead trees. 



TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



The same general directions will apply, except that the season for planting is, in 

 Minneapolis, from May 15 to June 20. The exact time when they would do best 

 would be just as the terminal buds begin to burst. The tops will not require much 

 cutting, but the roots must not be exposed to the direct rays of the sun, not even 

 for a few minutes, their resinous substance being easily coagulated by light or 

 heat, and once changed it can never be restored. 



DISCUSSION. 



, Mr. Kellogg. Mr. President, I apprehend we have forgotten all 

 about what the vice president said. I could refer to my notes, and 

 call for a good many questions, but this last paper and the other 

 valuable papers that have been read this evening I think Avill be more 

 profitable to discuss for a time than to go back. 



Mr. Sias. Did I understand Mr. Smith to say that his deciduous 

 trees were all native except the last six? 



Mr. Smith. Yes. 



Mr. Sias. I would like to inquire if you consider the Bird Cherry 

 a native? 



Mr. Smith. Yes; I found the Bird Cherry bearing in Wabasha 

 County twenty years ago. 



A Member. What time would you transplant trees that are ten to 

 tAvelve feet high? 



Mr. Smith. [ would move them just as the terminal buds were 

 swelling, in the spring. 



President Smith. That is the right time for trees ten to twelve feet 

 high, but in transplanting trees that are twenty-five or thirty feet, 

 you want to take them up in the winter with a bunch of dirt. Moving 

 with a pile of frozen dirt is all right, but it is very hard work, and it 

 is expensive. 



Mr. Bunnell. I was talking to a gentleman last night about moving 

 trees; he said he moved some in the winter, set them in the holes, 

 and every one of them died. 



Mr. Smith. More than that, they should be heavily watered, when 

 they are set out. They should not be allowed to stand long from the 



