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gard of its variable hardiness. Into Iowa, for example, 

 many thousands of Red Cedars were shipped from Tennes- 

 see. They could not be distinguished from the Red Cedar 

 found native in Iowa and Minnesota except that after a hard 

 winter the northern Red Cedar would be alive and the 

 southern trees would be dead or severely injured. This 

 fact of varying hardiness was not understood in the early 

 days of our prairie horticulture. It is another illustration of the 

 essential fact that botanical names do not tell the whole 

 story. In recent years the Red Cedar as found native along 

 the Platte river of Nebraska was extensively collected and 

 grown by various nurserymen in Iowa and Nebraska. This 

 form has .done reasonably well in southern South Dakota. 

 For Dakota planters it would be better to gather the seed 

 from such places as along the bluffs of the Cheyenne river 

 west of the Missouri and other places in the state where 

 found native. 



The "Cedar apples" found upon the Red Cedar is a fungus 

 which lives part of the time upon the Red Cedar, and part 

 of the time upon the apple and its allies such as Juneberry and 

 Hawthorn, where it forms orange colored spots on the 

 leaves. Two or three years ago an interesting case of this 

 was observed in a South Dakota nursery. The Red Cedar 

 hedges were badly infested with Cedar apples and the young 

 apple trees in the nursery row, especially the Wealthy, had 

 the foliage badly affected with the other stages of the fun- 

 gus. The long tubes or horn-like projections from the 

 Cedar apples after a shower contain the spores which spread 

 to the apple foliage. This trouble is serious only at long 

 intervals but eastern apple growers have long ago learned to 

 have no Cedar hedges near their orchards. The last four 

 or five years a nursery blight has also affected the Red 

 Cedar so that it has lost in popular favor with prairie 

 planters, and further developments are anxiously awaited. 



C. W. Gurney, Yankton, S. D., writes: "The Red cedar 



