140 SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLL' 



The following suggestions on* the management of evergreens 

 are taken from our Bulletin No. 3: 



1. If possible get your trees of a Dakota grower. The 

 home nurserymen should be patronized in all cases where pos- 

 sible, but it is especially important that coniferous trees be pur- 

 chased as near home as possible. If you can, drive to the nurs- 

 ery, with a wagon box full of straw and old rags or sacks, and 

 select your trees, having them dug with care. 



2. From the time the trees are taken up until you set them, 

 do not permit the dry air to strike the roots if it can be avoided. 

 This is essential. Have wet straw at hand, and as soon as the 

 trees are out of the ground, wrap the roots well in it. Put wet 

 straw in the bottom of the wagon, pack the trees closely, and 

 throw wet blankets or sacks over all. 



3. Choose small trees. Trees two feet high are far better 

 than those of greater size, and in five years will be larger than 

 those four feet high when planted. t 



, 4. Set the trees firm. Put fine soil in among the roots,, 

 shaking the tree to make it fill all crevices; then tramp the 

 ground hard. 



5. Mulch deep with coarse litter. 



A FFAV HARDY FRUITS, 



The Station has received a great man}* inquiries regarding 

 fruits that will succeed in this state. Our experiments with or- 

 chard fruits are not yet sufficiently advanced to determine the 

 hardiness of the varieties of apple, cherry, and pear that are be- 

 ing tested, and only a few of the varieties of plum have fruited; 

 hence we cannot base information on our own experiments. There 

 have been exhibited at the state fairs excellent samples of twenty 

 or more varieties of apples and several varieties of crabs. These 

 were nearly all grown in the southern tier of counties of the 

 state, and it would not be safe to base recommendations for the 

 state at large on that favored region. The Duchess is the hard- 

 iest of the standard apples commonly grown in this country. It 

 has fruited in Grant count} 7 , and is probably the most promising 

 variety handled b} r all nurseymen. The Wealthy succeeds in 



