320 Mlsi^uuri State Horticultural Society. 



And the joys from these arising 



Coming ages glad will tell. 

 These shall live, and grow, and gladden. 



While we moulder 'neath their leaves, — 

 Let us then improve the present. 



Leave behind us priceless trees. 



— Mrs. Annie G. Marshall. 



WISE LIBERALITY. 



Peter M. Gideon is widely known for his energetic and suc- 

 cessful efforts in producing new varieties of fruits hardy enough 

 for Minnesota. Among those which he has raised is the Wealthy 

 apple, a variety which promises to be as valuable for that region as 

 the Baldwin is at the east, and which is estimated to be worth a 

 million dollars to that state. 0. Gibbs, Jr., stated at the last 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society, that in recognition 

 of the valuable services Mr. Gideon has rendered and is still en- 

 gaged in, the State of Minnesota gives him a thousand dollars a 

 year, and the use of a farm on Lake Minnetonka, to continue his 

 experiments without interference, for an annual report to the 

 regents of the State University. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Flower gardening has its charms, and that class of gardening 

 which deals with landscape effects is c^elightful. But it is doubtful 

 whether these give more pleasure tlian a well ordered fruit and 

 vegetable garden, or a nicely kept and well cared for orchard. 

 The small gardens attached to residences of moderate means, are 

 often far more attractive than the thousand dollar efforts on lawns 

 of i^eople of more pretensions to taste and wealth. 



Indeed, it is too often a subject of regret that, where there is 

 a beautiful specimen of landscape gardening to be seen, the vege- 

 table garden, instead of being a beauty spot, is a mere " truck 

 patch " torn up by the plow, rooted about by the harrow, in holes 

 and hills everywhere, with dirt and filth on the "headland" which 

 serves for a " track to the patch," one can scarely pick his way. 

 We use the masculine term deliberately, because ladies are never 

 known to visit these places. There is nothing attractive to the 

 delicate mind. The vegetable garden is solely a matter of profit. 

 It is in competition with the market stand. If a bushel of pota- 

 toes costs a dollar, the gardener must laroduce them for ninety-nine 

 cents, or his occupation is gone. Hence, the horse and plough 

 only must be thought of. 



