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Black Ben Davis, Etris and Arkansas Belle are from Washington 

 Co., Ark. If jou want trees von will be perfectly satisfied by buying 

 Gano trees. They are practically, the same. 



Vocal Solo. — Mrs. Arthur Anderson. 



TWELVE HAEDY HEKBACEOUS PLAXTS. 



By Prof. N. O. Booth, Agricultural College, Columbia, Mo. 



The term hardy herbaceous plants includes all those hardy plants 

 of the temperat.e regions which die back to the ground once a year. 



The twelve plants which I have selected to speak about to-day are 

 ornamental perennials exclusively. 



The cultivation of hardy herbaceous ornamentals which were so 

 prominent in all the old gardens seems to have been rather neglected 

 of late years. The reasons for this neglect are numerous. The mul- 

 tiplication of greenhouses and the improvement of greenhouse cut flow- 

 ers, supplying the market the whole year round, has crowded out the old 

 flower garden as a place to secure choice blossoms ; the use of bedding 

 plants with their brilliant foliage has superseded them for yards and 

 public grounds. 



In part at least this has been the fault of the style and nature of 

 the older ornamental plantings. In most old gardens the collections of 

 perennials consisted of everything and anything planted in much tJie 

 same manner in which they were selected, the whole effect being curious 

 rather than beautiful. And this in a great degree is probably the 

 cause of their decline in popular favor. However, the hardy ornamen- 

 tal perennial can ill be spared from either garden or yard and to-day 

 there seems to be a reaction in favor of these neglected plants. 



The advantages of hardy perennials as yard decorators are such 

 as recommend them particularly to those people who have but little 

 time to devote to flowers and who wish to secure the maximum amount 

 of bloom with the minimum amount of attention and work. Concise! -.- 



