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twenty varieties and when I find the one that is a success I am 

 ready to go into the peach business. I have a sample of an 

 early peach here that seems to stand the winter quite well. I 

 believe I have cultivated my peach trees too highly and have 

 sown down to red clover, in hopes that by doing this they will 

 stand the winters better. Now I do not care to take up further 

 time as we have fruit growers here whose years of experience, 

 and the magnitude of their labors so far out rank mine that I 

 would much rather be a listener. I thank you. 



HARDY ORNAMENTALS. 



BY C. S. HAKRISON, YORK. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: You have been listen- 

 ing to the successes and failures of fruit growing. We have 

 heard of disease, insects and enemies without number which 

 seem on the watch for every apple, pear and plum which 

 makes its appearance. Now let us change the subject. Let 

 us look away from failures to success — to hardy ornamentals. 

 It is true we have lost much time and money in finding out what 

 was hardy. We have followed the divine injunction, "Prove all 

 things; hold fast to that which is good." 



I bring here samples of some of our perennials. It is too 

 late, of course, for peonies, but it would have done your souls 

 good to see the wonderful display of 50,000 in 400 varieties, all 

 vieing with each other to do their best. Here are some gaillardi- 

 as flowers, but little known. There is a species growing wild in 

 the Republican valley. They have been improved till now we 

 have eighty varieties; some of immense size, five inches across. 

 Here are large single ones, very striking in color and some of 

 mine are three inches in diameter. Here are double ones, very 

 rich in the blending of tints, and these are single, blood red, 

 very effective in masses. They are the most prolific of all 

 flowers, doing a wholesale business from June tiU November. 



Here are some phloxes. These are imported and this col- 

 lection is of my own originating. And I want you women to 

 know something of the fascination in bringing new things out 



