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seed. 



You can multiply rapidly from the roots; take a sharp spade, run 

 It straight down half way, and then turn it square and cut off the 

 roots. The roots you leave in the ground, will put a head on them- 

 selves, and there will be a great mass of them. Seedlings bloom the 

 first year, these do not. 



Take them up in the fall and plant them out, and next year you 

 will have fine blooming plants. You separate the shoots you take up, 

 and plant them out, and in a year, you will have fine showy plants. 

 People have a wrong idea, they want either two or three year old 

 clumps, or very large single plants, with a great mop of roots. Such 

 a mass of roots are in each others way, and rob each other. A 

 clump soon gets woody and eliminates the fibrous roots; we have 

 early and late phloxes and the time of blooming reaches from June 

 to November. The Baltonia is a very robust plant which should be 

 placed in the back ground. It is a very late bloomer with an a?ter 

 like flower of snowy white. It blooms when there are but few other 

 flowers, and is in demand for funerals, and weddings. To supplement 

 perennials, we have asters, gladiolas, dahlias, cannas, and I have 

 not time to dwell on them. We have also one hundred and fifty kinds 

 of lilacs which are hardy in the northwest: at least a dozen sorts of 

 Pliiladelphias, or syrngas, and 18 kinds of spireas; a large family of 

 rhododendrons. If you must have them, plant the pictures, and you 

 will get about the same results, or hang them up Avhere you can look 

 at them. With such an immense family to select from, and with such 

 a congenial climate as the northwest affords, you can surround your- 

 selves with a splendor which will be prophetic of the "glory to be 

 revealed." 



The Chairman: I wall have to tell you where my interest In 

 horticultural matters took its rise. A good many years ago, I 

 dropped into the Horticultural society, and I heard Father Harrison 

 telling about flowers, and I think my interest in horticulture dated 

 from that time, because I went home and told my wife and daughter 

 that I had found a man who talked more interesting upon flowers 

 than any other man I ever heard. We will now hear a paper from Mr. 

 Spencer, — F. P. Spencer of Randolph, la., on the subject, "How We 

 Can Get the Consumers to Eat More Apples." 



HOW WE CAN GET THE COASUiMEKS TO EAT MORE APPLES. 



By F. P. Spencecr, Randolph. Iowa. 



Mr. Spencer: In our recent State Horticultural meeting held In 

 Des Moines, in December, it was our high privilege to have with us, 

 your secretary. I was under the impression we treated him very fair, 

 but evidently he had a grudge against me, or he would not have 

 assigned me such a subject as this. It is a subject of great interest, 



