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is followed out, no family need be without a full supply 

 of this health-giving fruit. 



IOWA TREE LISTS AND NOTES. 

 BY F. H. BRUNING, KENT, IOWA. 



SOUTH CENTRAL. For ornamental trees the blue 

 spruce heads the list for this locality, followed by silver 

 fir, Colorado spruce, and Norway spruce. Of pines, the 

 white leads, followed by the Colorado. The Scotch pine 

 is the poorest we have. For a windbreak nothing equals 

 the red cedar, and next to it comes Norway spruce. 

 There is one thing greatly overlooked in the digging of 

 evergreens, and that is pulling them up : they should be 

 dug up and the soil shaken off very carefully in order to 

 preserve the fine roots, which in red cedar are very fine 

 indeed, and easily broken off. The central root is no use 

 without them ; but if the fine roots are preserved and 

 trees properly planted, they start at once and need no 

 shade. 



BY M. VINCENT, LKMAES. 



NORTH-WEST. A very good way to observe Arbor 

 Day would be for the teacher to have each scholar set out 

 a tree or shrub and then take care of it during the season. 

 Let this custom be followed each year, and let there be 



