REPORT OF C. S. HARRISON, DELEGATE. 257 



A man in Manitoba sees cottonwood growing and determines 

 to have some. He sees them offered cheap in a Nebraska nursery 

 and buys a lot, but none of them can live, for they are southern 

 born and bred. Had he taken them from the Manitoba streams, 

 he w^ould have been all right. So with boxelder, called Manitoba 

 maple. The natives are all right, but those imported from Ne- 

 braska or Kansas would be a failure. Carry this further. 

 Rocky Mountain evergreens grown from seed gathered in the 

 foot hills are all right for the plains, for the conditions are sim- 

 ilar. The same trees planted in the north would be too tender^ 

 as they have found to their cost in Minnesota. 



On the other hand seedlings raised from seed of the high alti- 

 tudes which corresponds to almost arctic conditions would be 

 worthless on the plains, but all right for Manitoba. These 

 things are too little regarded, but we must accept these facts 

 and act accordingly if we would have success. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF FLORICULTURE. 



The next paper was on "The Possibilities of Floriculture," 

 by C. S. Harrison of York, Nebraska. Tlie writer presented 

 the second chapter of his forthcoming book, "The Gold Mine 

 in the Front Yard; How to Work It" soon to be issued by the 

 Webb Publishing company of St. Paul. 



He spoke of the wonderful carpet captured by the Saracens 

 from the Persians. This was 450 feet long and 590 feet wide. 

 It was set with gems, to imitate a flowering garden. He said: 

 "We cannot own a carpet like this, but there was only one of it, 

 while millions of people could have carpets of flowers fully as 

 beautiful. ' ' He spoke of standing by the original Concord grape 

 in the old, historic town in Massachusetts; that humble vine 

 was worth more by far than the choicest gems ever discovered. 



He spoke of the charms of finding new things in the fields of 

 floriculture, and said that Rosenfield of Nebraska and Terry of 

 Iowa were finding several gems richer than diamonds, which 

 were bringing beauty and joy to thousands of homes. 



T. T. Bachellor of Minneapolis read an extremely interesting 

 paper on garden experiments. He referred to what the writer 

 said a year before, "that never had an acre in the west been put 



