508 WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
transplanted in latter part of August or early in September— 
if a dry time, always wet the ground thoroughly at time of 
planting —never fail to cultivate the ground well, one or two 
feet further than the branches extend, and mulch well with 
chip dirt, sawdust, straw or hay, (never use rank stable man¬ 
ure) in June, before very hot weather. 
A liberal dressing of chip dirt, and a little leached ashes, 
applied in winter or early spring is very beneficial. 
My commencement in planting Evergreens on the prairies, 
with a few specimens, was made in 1845; have now some eight 
or ten hundred, planted for screens, from which we already de¬ 
rive some shelter, and their beauty is above all price, where 
without them, winter is so dreary. 
Annexed, is a list of varieties tested. 
Very truly, yours, 
SAMUEL EDWARDS. 
List of Evergreens exhibited for First Premium , at Illinois 
State Fair , September 1858, by Samuel Edivards , La 
Moille Nursery , Bureau County , Lllinois. 
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White Pine, or. 
Austrian, or. 
Cembran, or. 
Lofty, or. 
Gray, or .. 
Scotch, or. 
Sea, or. 
Norway, or. 
Norway Spruce,. 
Black Spruce, or. 
Red Spruce, or. ... 
White Spruce,. 
Hemlock,.. 
American Arbor Vitae, or 
Siberian Arbor Vitae, or. 
Red Cedar, or.. 
Savin, or. 
Swedish Juniper, or... . 
Irish Juniper, or.. 
Trailing Hemlock, or.... 
Balsam Fir, or. 
European Silver Fir, or.. 
.. Finns Strobus. 
.. Finns Austriaca. 
..Finns Cembra. 
.. Finns excelsa. 
.. Finns Fanksiana, 
.. Finns Sylvestris. 
. . Finns maritimus. 
.. Finns resinosa. 
. .Abies excelsa. 
.. Abies nigra. 
.. Abies rubra. 
. .Abies alba. 
.Abies Canadensis. 
.. Thuja occidentalis. 
.. Thuja Siberiana. 
.. Juniperus Virginica. 
. .Juniperus Saberiana. 
..Juniperus Suecica., 
. Juniperus Hibernica. 
.. Taxus Canadensis. 
.. Picea balsamea. 
. .Picea pectinata. 
The Lofty Pine, Sea Pine, and European Silver Fir, are 
not sufficiently hardy to be desirable here, unless protected in 
winter. 
