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thousand plants if you want them. A lot of people think they can't 

 raise the Yucca Filamentosa from the seed, but they can. It is easy 

 enough to do that. 



Mr. Williams: I want to call attention to another form of this quin- 

 quefolia, or ivy, which has a file shaped leaf that clings to stone walls. 

 In my opinion it is far above the old form, which requires a trellis, and I 

 do not see any use in planting the other form any more. This propagates 

 easier and is just as good and is worthy of planting instead of the old 

 kind. Kearney has planted some at the new Normal building, and it is 

 being planted in other places, and the interest seems to be just awakening 

 concerning it and it ought to be generally substituted for the old form. 



President: I desire to concur in the remarks of Mr. Williams. I have 

 been much interested in that variety, the Ampelopsis Englemanii. 



Question: Is it not sometimes called the Boston ivy? 



President: No; it has a very small leaf. The one that clings to the 

 wall I think is Englemanii. I bought it in the east, and I think it is the 

 same thing. 



Mr. Brown: Quite a number of us were at West Baden Springs two 

 years ago, and we wandered out back of the hotel and we found this same 

 thing growing there wild on the hills in southern Indiana. We have the 

 same thing here around the state farm buildings, and I have seen it in 

 a number of places here, quinquefolia, Ampelopsis, Virginia creeper, 

 American ivy, these are all names for it. I think it is all the same thing. 



Professor Emerson: This quinquefolia I got in part from plants at 

 Mr. Pollard's place at Nehawka, and in part it was taken from dwelling 

 houses in this city, cuttings. I sent last year to Storrs & Harrison for 

 Englemanii and got the same thing, so I have since that been calling it 

 Englemanii. From the fact that the form we have does not shed its 

 leaves as early as the common kind with tendrils, I am led to believe 

 that it may not be as hardy in the extreme North, but it is hardy here. 

 It holds its leaves longer. Over porches I think I would prefer the other 

 kind, as it is more vigorous in growth; but for stone or brick or concrete 

 I would prefer this. 



Mr. Brown: I think this has the prettier foliage. The foliage of the 

 other form is rather dull, but this is bright and shiny and I think pref- 

 erable to the other in that respect also. 



Mr. Crawford: You are talking as though it was hard to get, and 

 scarce. That is all nonsense. It is growing all over in the state of Iowa. 



President: What do you refer to? 



Mr. Crawford: The Virginia creeper. But there are two kinds of 

 Virginia creeper, and you want to be careful and don't meddle with the 

 three-leaved kind, but when you find the five-leaved you are all right, and 

 you find it everywhere in the woods in Iowa. 



Mr. Green: I was born and raised in Iowa and spent all the time I 

 could in the woods all my life; but I never saw the Ampelopsis Veitchii 

 growing wild in Iowa. There is plenty of Virginia creeper, that is com- 



