St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-05


alone was able to give. The Masonic
fnstructors 10 Free AGentg" ta George sDe
S. Josselyn, of Fredonia, n. z, read an
essay entitled Fun for the Boy, bui
Death on Frogs" Col. G, l., Waltrous.
Of Des Moines, To-, delivered an adj
dress on The Pioneer Nurseryman."
Prof. Fred Taylor, of the university,
gave short talk on horticulture
In Minnesota. Other members of the
convention made little speeches. The
programme was good one and bright.
There was nothing stilted or technical
about it, and the outsiders enjoyed the
various papers and addresses as much
as did the nurserymen.
Yesterday afternoon the nurserymen
did no business: They just went out
to have a good time. Members of the
park board and the city council
no ball game, so A. j. Board
man went along to explain to the
nurserymen the beauties of the certifi-
cate of Indebtedness system of paying
for parks. Aid. Woodward wanted to
call out the fire department but discov-
cred that the nurSerymen were not en-
thusiastic over water towers, hook and
ladder trucks Or Siamese couplings.
Yesterday morning the first paper
was an essay on 'Rocky Mountain
Evergreens." by G. S. Harrison. of
Franklin, Neb. He sought to explain
how the plains OF the great West are to
be covered with forests.
The problem Of clio hing the West
ern plains with forests is an important
one" said the speaker. "Deciduous
trees are not sufficient to break the
power of the billiards and check the
sirroccOS-we need eyergreens. Conifers
by the million have been shipped over
the Missouri and by the million they
have failed. Near the Tooth meridian
the white Norway and block spruce and
the arbOrvitaes are failures. The Scotch
pine does we'll while young, but in time
of trial it goes down before the drought.
The Austrian does well while young.
but the white pine is uncertain;
so we must look elsewhere. Look
ing down from the foothills of
the West, sheltering Northern Nebras-
for the emergency. 1t was invented
and reared for the very purpose, and
has been waiting for these centuries to
come down into the plains. This is
most heroic tree. 1t seems alike indif-
ferent to winters cold and sum-
mer'S heat. For many years [ have
been making careful experiments with
this tree. Six years ago | brought lot
from the mountain and planted them in
the open ground without protection. |
cultivated them for the first year, and
after that left them to utter neglect.
The ground was sometimes very dry,
but none died after they were we'll
established. and they averaged about a
foot year in growth
EX-President w. G. Barry, of the
American Pathological society, gave a
short talk on the work of the society,
advising the young nurSerymen to join
it. Charles A. Ketfer, an eX-Minneapo-
lis newspaper man, now connected with
the South Dakota Agricultural college
at BrOOklngS, read paper on 1.-The
Northwest as Field for Nursery Ex-
tension Work" j. 0. Barrett, of
Browns Valley, secretary of the Min
nesota State Forestry association, intro
duced series OF resolutions, of which
the following two are the meat:
Resolved, That the American association
of Nurserymen, now in session in the city of
Minneapolis, Recommend and urge our agri-
cultural and horticultural co-operators in
every part of the country 10 take immediate
steps for the security of such reserves of
woodland, not privately entered, wherever it
is possibly practical. and that special atten-
ton be given TO this matter by the people oc-
cupying the Rocky mountain regions to save
the natural forests there from further van
dalism of axe and fire. so that their great
reservoirs OF water may be wisely econo-
mized for general atmospheric humidity and
for irrigation over and on the great plains of
the West
Resolved, That such a reverse be made of
the beautiful woodlands in the northern part
of Minnesota, not yet entered, to be used as
oil To
plete the interlocking chain of forests to be
over the country, and that reserve |
at least four or five of the 100000 |
of the unoccupied acres, and that said park
be located in as long belt east and west as
possible within the governmental domain, and
south where its waters by natural or artl-
fetal channels can help feed the sources of
the Mississippi river
j. S. Harris. of La Crescent, Mimi,
read a paper on THE Outlook of Pom
ology i'll the Northwest" His deduc-
tions.were favorable to the state.