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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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76 A call for the yeas and nays on the?resolution, resulted in, yeas 24, nays 0. The Committee on Horticulture presented their report: REPORT. The Standing Committee on Horticulture respectfully report as follows: Of the 3,000 Apple trees obtained from A. M. Lawver, supposed to embrace about 1,500 varieties, 2,180 were planted permanently in orchard, and the remainder set in nursery to be planted the present season. Of forest tree stock, intended for planting in arboretum, shelter-belts and forest plantations, we have growing in the nursery since last spring, the trees in the following list : 3,000 Green Ash 2 to 3 feet in height. 1,000 White Elm 15 " 24 inches " 680 Soft Maples 3 " 6 feet 1,000 Am. Arbor Vitse, transplanted 6 " 10 inches " 100 Scotch Pines 15 " 24 " 100 Austrian Pines 6 " 8 " 1,000 Norway Spruce, transplanted 6 " 10 " " 1,000 Am. Arbor Vitae From forest. 1,000 Hemlock " 1,000 Red Pines " 1,000 White Spruce " 10,000 " Pines " 12 Tulip 3 to 4 feet high. 200 Sugar Maples 3 " 6 inches high. 25 Sycamore 3 " 4 feet " 25 Comewell Willow , 3" 4 " " 25 Forbyana " 3 " 4 " 108 Pear trees, 18 varieties 5 " 7 " 28 Plum " 6 " 5 " 7 " 12 Cherry" 2 " 4 " 6 " 8 Crab " 4 " 6 " 126 Apple " 21 varieties 1 year. 660 " " 2 to 5 years. 10,000 Catalpa, grown from seed. Of the shelter-belts, there have been planted about 50 rods on the west side of the orchard, in Austrian Pine and Norway Spruce; about 40 rods on north side, of Soft Maple; on the south side, about 80 rods of Soft Maple; on the north side, commencing at the northeast corner, about 60 rods of Red Cedar. If a sufficient number of trees can be obtained, of suitable size and kinds, the remainder of the shelter-belts will be completed the present season. We have ordered, and will receive the present spring, about 143,000 trees, of various kinds, intended for arboretum, forest and shelter-belts, the cost of which, besides freight, will be about $953 50. These trees have been obtained
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