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hardy and cannot be made to grow as far north as Nebraska. - 

 If you want to raise White Pine get seed from the native belt 

 nearest you. And now have a care; for the White Pine, no 

 matter what the brand, cannot be made to grow west of the 

 100th meridian. 



I had a beautiful lot of fine thrifty ones. 6 feet tall, that 

 grew there, .and it seemed as if they would succeed, but with 

 the Amierican Sirocco blowing a gale, with the mercury 112 in 

 the shade, you could smell them as they were cooking. Tet in 

 tlie eastern part of Nebraska there are fine groves of them, 

 but as you get 100 miles west of the river the conditions grow 

 more unfavorable. There are, perhaps, 20 in York County to- 

 day, remnants of the thousands that have been planted. It 

 don't pay to plant a hundred trees to get one to live. The 

 Scotch Pine will grow in the eastern part of many of our west- 

 ern states, but beware how you try to move it too far West. 

 Experts found fine groves of this tree growing in western Kan- 

 sas, and recommended it for that region. How does this hap- 

 pen? The wet and dry seasons move in cycles. There will be 

 a succession of wet ones, as we have had for the last four years, 

 and are deluded with the thought that it will always be so. In 

 these wet >ears Scotch Pine, and perhaps Norway Spruce, and 

 n\'en White Pine may grow a few years and then come the 

 (\iy and scorching winds and the mercury soaring — so' hot you 

 can smell the scorching prairie grass, and down- go >'0ur hopes and 

 >'0ur groves of White Spruce, White Pine, Norway Spruce. But 

 the Ponderosa ^^ ill be there with its long plumes waving de- 

 fiance to all that comes, and beside it will stand the Austrian 

 Pine unniK^ved. But take care how far north you mo\-e this 

 same Austrian. While the Scotch Pine with its soft foliage 

 cannot endure the intense heat of the plains, it is hardier in 

 the north than the Austrian, or the foot-hills Ponderosa. As a 

 gr-ner.al rule trees with hard, stiff needles will endure the heat 

 better than those with soft foliage. Red Cedars from southern 

 Illinois are not hardy in Nebraska .and the Platte Cedars are 

 not hardy in North Dakota, though they are of the same 

 species. The delicate and lioautiful evergreen of Japan — the 

 Retinisporas — do well in Massachusetts, but what bedraggled, 

 despondent and homesick-looking things they become when 

 moved to Kanpas. So, take Pinus Ponderosa to the eastern 

 sea coast and it is the picture of despair. 



Tlipse suggestions arc the result of years of close observa- 

 tions, and if you are going to raise evergreens there are always 

 some kinds that are waiting tor you and will succeed in your 

 locality. But be sure of them before you begin to raise them 

 on a large scale. 1 can imagine a man from the Bast coming 

 to a western prairie farm. He is all enthusiasm, he will show 

 the natives how it is done. He has had a thorough training 

 In a flrst-class agricultural college and he knows Just what to 



