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is just as much difference in trees as there is between one and 
two—just exactly the same difference. I do not suppose that 
any one has been more careful in the selection of trees than I 
have been. I have there the white birch; it is a weeping tree; 
it is beautiful. People ask me, ‘‘Where did you get it?” It is 
a native right here. Here are elms, magnificent elms, branch- 
ing out in every direction. Everybody admires them who has 
any taste for trees. An oak is not what you want. The 
branches of an elm shade and protect the roots. They branch 
out in a horizontal direction just as far as the limbs reach out. 
It isthe same way with the white birch; and I might go on and 
name the ash and the boxelder. From most of these you can 
get a tree that will suit you. I have seen trees growing in 
yards that people thought were beautiful, that I would not 
want in my yard; they were disgusting to look at. Itis all in 
intelligence in selection; it is all selection. 
Another thing I want to notice. Every improvement I make, I 
make it a point to conceal by it—to hide everything that is beau- 
tiful—, and it seems agood deal more beautiful, and the sur- 
prise is a good deal greater to find it all at once. That has 
been a study with me. And then when you come to orna- 
mental roses—I think they are the most beautiful flowers I have 
got; there is nothing like the rose. You want to get hardy 
roses. The most beautiful roses are the Jacqueminot, Madame 
Plantier, Baltimore Belle, Seven Sisters, Prairie Queen and 
lots of others. You just want to arrange them right. I have 
heard hundreds of people in passing by my house in carriages 
when these roses were in bloom, and they came on them all at 
once, they would just scream! The pressure was too great; 
they couldn’t stand it. It is all in the way itis fixed up. I 
can make a paradise outofa place. I can make such a place 
that the children will say, ‘‘Pa, you shall never sell it... What 
do you think of it? Whatdo you think of it? (Laughter and 
applause. ) 
Mr. Moyer: Iam very glad to see these maps here, and I 
think we should all be very glad to see these maps of Prof. 
Nutter’s published. The great trouble in tree planting in 
western Minnesota is that the trees are all planted in straight 
rows and only one variety at that. This might be much im- 
proved by setting them out promiscously without any particu- 
lar design. 
