QUESTION BOX. ol 



QUESTION BOX. 



Mr. Youngers: 1 am somewhat interested in columbines. 1 believe iu 

 this part of the state there is a white columbine. I have been trying to 

 get some, as there is none in our neighborhood. 



President: There are some in the eastern part of the state. 



Mrs. Reuling: What color? 



Mr. Youngers: One variety seems to be purple and another lavender. 



Mrs. Reuling: I believe I saw some in here some years ago. 



Mr. Yager: In regard to the columbine, we have a columbine on the 

 Platte river that we think exceeds in beauty our tame columbine. We 

 have successfully transplanted it from along the Platte river into our 

 gardens and it grows better than the tame. 



The President: What color is it? 



Mr. Yager: Well, I would have to say I could not tell just now exactly, 

 but I think it is purple. We think they are very fine. We do not get as 

 many colors as you do in the tame, but they bloom longer. They are in 

 bloom now, and we think a good deal of them.. In this connection I will 

 say that I am more and more impressed with the fact that people oftea- 

 times overlook many of the wild native varieties that are found growing 

 in our own neighborhood and locality that are so well suited to their 

 locality in their haste to get something better, longing for and willing 

 to accept anything except the things at home. 



The President: Yes, and I would mention as an illustration the wild 

 snapdragon which grows along the Platte. I . have seen it growing very 

 large and beautiful. I gathered seed and planted. It is quick in culti- 

 vation. 



Mr. Youngers: There is the crimson hibiscus that I have seen grow- 

 ing along the Elkhorn river. 



The President: There are three or four kinds of hibiscus. 



Mr. Brown: There is a verbena growing along the Solomon river. 1 

 have relatives there and they tell me it is getting to be quite a pesi. 

 That is where I first saw it, west, on the Solomon river. And there is 

 a'bellflower that very much resembles the county bell or the campanula. 

 There is the v,ild cactus that grows all over the country. The flower is 

 handsome. It is a mass of white flowers. It is a profuse grower; it 

 makes a very good flower. It has a long beard. In e^rly spring we have 

 a nice line of anemone. There is another flower; it is yellow, that we 

 see growing in the native sod; it is not so beautiful, but if brought out 

 it will do well in cultivation. You might secure some of them. One of 

 the handsomest and nicest things I ever saw is Snow on the Mountains. 



President: It used to grow around Council Bluffs. 



Mr. Brown: Generally, all over the West and in the western part of 

 the state. I have seen it in Illinois; there they call it the spider plant; 

 it grows about four feet high; I don't know the color. 



The President: It is a deep blue, I think. 



Mr. Brown: We see it growing in the western part of the state, out 

 to the mountains. 



