CHAPTEK VI. 



HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS— SELECTING TREES AND 

 SHRUBS. 



You should choose for hardiness those that grow nat- 

 urally in your own neighborhood, and those that have 

 been well tested and are recommended by your nursery- 

 man. 



For instance, I found in Manitoba that cottonwood 

 did well, and yet care must be taken to secure northern 

 trees. Those that came from Iowa or l^ebraska would 

 not answer at all. 



Eastern butternuts are worthless in E'ebraska, and 

 yet they grow wild a hundred miles north of St. Paul, 

 and probably those would be all right anywhere in the 

 west. 



Some one says ^^plant red cedar.'' That dejpends on 

 where you get them. Those growing in your own 

 neighborhood are all right. Those grown in southern 

 Illinois are tender in ^Nebraska, and the famous Platte 

 cedar will not do in E'orth Dakota. 



That is one trouble Avith fruits. Apples that do well 

 in Illinois and Iowa are worthless in Minnesota, and 

 at infinite expense and patience a new race has been cre- 

 ated. It has taken a generation to move apples three 

 hundred miles north. Years ago I sent seed of the pon- 



