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Masters — I am not aware of the extent of the pine ; it is in Keya 

 Paha county ; it is preferable to Austrian pine, and is easy to trans- 

 plant. I have Pinus Ponderosa twenty feet high. My evergreens 

 are troubled with an insect that begins the first of September on the 

 tips of last year's leaves; it turns them a light green, then a light 

 brown, and finally they fall off. This attacks Pinus Plexus worst 

 of all. 



Webber — Sargent says there are no pines in Nebraska, but we find 

 he is mistaken ; we think the pines in northwest Nebraska were at 

 one time connected with those of southeast, but years of prairie fires 

 have broken the connection. The yellow pine of Arkansas is Pinus 

 Ponderosa, and ours is a variety. 



EVERGREENS FOR THE PLAINS. 



BY C. S. HAEEISOX, 



Having had several years 7 experience almost under the one hun- 

 dredth meridian, looking both ways I note some experiences which 

 may be of value to others. Always in a new country people will say 

 "You cannot raise this or that." In 1871 an old settler at Crete said 

 " You never can raise an evergreen in Nebraska/' and yet if you know 

 how you can just as well raise an evergreen as a cotton wood. Many 

 of them will endure more neglect, and will live where a cottonwood 

 cannot. 



PINES. 



Among the pines — yea, among all the evergreens — adapted for the 

 vast country reaching from the Missouri river to the Rockies, I place 

 first and foremost the Pinus Ponderosa. It is a native of northwest- 

 ern Nebraska. It was born and brought up in a land of drouths. 

 It is a hardy, heroic, brave tree, and from it our grandchildren will 

 cut saw-logs all over these vast prairies. It has been sadly neglected, 

 because it was thought so hard to propagate. But years of experience 

 shows it is as easy to handle as the Scotch or American pines. It is a 

 grand tree — symmetrical and imposing with the deepest green; it has 

 heavy plumes ; it grows in regions that are very dry, where the ground 

 is seldom soaked. I have allowed it to grow in grass and weeds to 



