DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



FLOWERS, 1915. 



The flowers listed below were not given any special care, most of my time was 

 given for " something to eat," as they express it in this district. 



Asters — Beautiful, large. 



Wild Cucumber— Eight feet. 



Dianthus — Good ; from seeded last year. 



Digitalis — Fair. 



Humulus — Twenty feet. 



Helianthus — Some fine flowers and many varieties. 



Nasturtiums — Dwarf, excellent. 



Pansy — Many varieties, excellent, admired by many who did not believe they would 

 grow in such profusion in this latitude 



Phlox — Beautiful. 



Poppies, Shirley — Fair. 



Stocks — Poor. 



Sweet Peas — A mixture of Spencer's. Beautiful, wonderful growth. 



Sweet William — Seeded this year ; good start. 



Zinnia — Did almost as well as the catalogue describes them. 



Wild Garden — Many flowers bloomed there ; ma,y have been seeds that did not ger- 

 minate, but enough did their duty to make a fine showing. 



Esclischoltzia — A solid round bed 8 feet diameter of the red. To me the most exqui- 

 site and delicate is the native Californian. 



HERBS— 1915. 



This past season was so remarkable that a report on any cultivated seed cannot 

 be referred to as a test in this district. 



The wild growth was abnormal. 



The season began just right and closed as mildly. 



All the cellars are full to the door,, so v/ith a shoe-string to snare rabbits the 

 homesteaders are better tixed for the coming winter than many families in the over- 

 crov/ded cities. 



Hudson Hope. 



