40 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



SECOND SESSION.-2:00 P. M. 



THE PRESIDENT: The first subject on our program for this 

 afternoon is the Flower Garden, by Mr. Green. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 

 By C. H. Green, Fremont. 



In presenting to the members and friends assembled here a plea 

 for the flower garden I feel that it would be unneccesary for me to go 

 into details regarding varieties, methods of propogating and caring for 

 the different blooming and decorative plants adapted to the flower 

 gardens of Nebraska. 



Neither will I take into consideration anything in the line of hardy 

 ornamentals. Our worthy secretary first asked me to give you some- 

 thing on the line of ornamental shrubs. I told him that in my opinion 

 there was just one man in the state who knew all about them and the 

 first letter of his name was C. S. Harrison, York, Nebraska. 



My line is growing tender plants under glass both for cut flowers 

 and for planting in the flower garden, such as geraniums, verbenias, 

 cannas, coleus, heliotrope, pansies, ageratium, dahlias, and many 

 others of this class of which we produced and distributed during the 

 present season many thousands of plants. 



Now perhaps some of you will be disappointed because I do not 

 tell you to plant something different from what you have been used to, 

 something new, something strange and odd, but twenty years experi- 

 ence in this line of work has taught me that there are a great many 

 beautiful sorts of plants recommended in catalogues, for planting in 

 your yard, that will only bring disappointment to you. How much 

 better to have something that will thrive under all circumstances even 

 though we saw it in our grandmother's garden, than to have something 

 with a long, unpronounceable name, praised to the skies by the intro- 

 ducee, that will possibly produce flowers resembling those shown in 

 the glorious lithograph only, about one-tenth the size you expected, 

 and that will burn and curl up on the first day that the sun shines 

 genially, that will look like a young man with his first cigar if we 

 should have a cool wet spell, that will whip to rags the first time we 



