96 EVERGREENS. 



ADDENDA. 



The proprietor of the nursery at Devils Lake, North Da- 

 Itota, gives this account. He wanted to start a nursery on the 

 bleak wind-swept prairies of North Dakota. He bought a lot 

 of seeds and hired a German expert; but he did not like his 

 work and let him go. Then said he, "I followed the book" and 

 as the result he raised millions of evergreens, and now this 

 nursery in the bleak Northwest has forged to the front, show- 

 ing what can be done under adverse circumstances. He is 

 proclaiming the gospel of hope to those vast treeless regions 

 and showing how those fertile lands can be adorned and 

 embellished by sheltering forests. 



Following the directions of the book, scores of farmers in 

 the sand hills in Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba, are raising 

 their own evergreens. 



The tree planting at Halsey yet goes on. Many experi- 

 ments have been tried to prevent damping off, and this formula 

 is given. Directly after planting the seeds dilute 3-16 of an 

 ounce of fluid sulphuric acid with a pint of water for every 

 square foot, and sprinkle your beds. Then water your beds 

 every day till the plants come up. 



Send to U. S. Department ot Agriculture for Bulletin No. 

 453 regarding damping off of evergreens. 



Since the first edition was written I became connected with 

 a. nursery in central Minnesota. I had the men go into a patch 

 of hazel brush, cut off and burn the brush, dig up the ground, 

 rake out the roots, level down and rake the earth fine, then sow, 

 and spread half an inch well rotted leaf mould, and when 

 directions were followed we got a splendid stand without water- 

 ing and had no damping off. 



I wish to recommend the cultivation of the Bull Pine. 



I recently visited a plantation which I put out some 25 

 years ago in Franklin in the- Republican Valley in Nebraska. 

 It had been a fearful summer and while other evergreens 

 showed the effects of the terrible drouth the Bull Pine never 

 winched. They were brilliant green. Those out in the open 

 had developed symmetrical heads and from what experience 

 I have had with these trees I am confident that with the right 

 treatment they could be made to grow anywhere between the 

 Missouri riVer and the Rockies. Once established I never knew 

 one to fail. 



