expected being planted to a considerable extent.

As far as usefulness is concerned, the farmer of the prairie states is
bound to get more real value from an evergreen than any other person,
but I am very glad to say that the homes of the wealthy in the cities
each season are being improved more and more by the planting of the more
ornamental evergreens. Cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston,
St. Paul, Minneapolis, and other large cities of the United States are
using thousands of evergreens every season to beautify the homes, of not
only the wealthy but of the laboring man also. The price of evergreens
at the present time is within the reach of everyone owning a home, and
there is no other improvement that can be placed upon a piece of ground
at so little expense and so little labor that will add so many dollars
in real value to that property as will the evergreen, either as a
windbreak or in landscape work.




Annual Report, 1915, Executive Board.

J. M. UNDERWOOD, CHAIRMAN


The report of the executive board is necessarily brief from the fact
that the machinery of our society is kept in such excellent condition by
our secretary, that there is little left for our board to do. His
monthly issues of the "Horticulturist" keep the membership posted on all
important items of interest and are a splendid examplification to the
public of the value of our publications and of the meetings of our