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In preparing the soil for your wild flowers, you will need to be careful not to 
make it too rich; since many wild flowers will be coarsened by too much plant- 
food. The violets, particularly, will give you no blossoms, but a great growth 
of leaves. All plants from the prairies will do well in ordinary garden soil. It 
is not necessary to try to imitate their native soil. The plants from the wood 
will need shade, and watering now and then. The north side of a hedge fence 
trimmed somewhat high would be best; but the shady side of a stone wall or 
building, perhaps the house itself, will do very well. Woodland plants will do 
better for an admixture of leaf loam in the soil; and it seems to be a necessity 
for ferns. 
In making the water garden, it would be well, I think, to sink the half- 
barrel, or whatever you use, in the ground in a shady place; then, the most of 
your water-plants will grow about the edge, where you can keep them sufficiently 
moist. 
It will not be necessary to know the scientific names of flowers, nor even any 
name at all. We have very few poisonous plants, and those are not usually at- 
tractive; so that you may take anything that strikes your fancy. It may be best 
to gather seeds of late-blooming sorts, sowing the seed in early spring, not too 
early for warmth. 
My paper will not be complete perhaps, unless I add a few ‘‘don’ts.”’ 
It would be best to avoid cultivating any member of the family Convolvulus, 
or morning-glory. You will be tempted, if you love vines, to take the Jpoma@a 
pandurata, old-man-in the-ground, largely advertised a few years ago as the 
hardy day moonflower, but don’t. Nor must you have anything to do with the 
beautiful white bindweed, unless you have courage to pull up and dig out all 
sprouts you do not wish to grow. Nor would I advise growing any of the sun- 
flowers, although our common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is a bright and 
wholesome plant; yet it has, sometimes, such a quantity of seed that it is im- 
possible to prevent its spreading. Another member of the family, our abundant 
rock-weed, Helianthus orgyalis, is grown in Eastern gardens and considered very 
desirable. The long, drooping leaves are as much in demand as the flower. 
Of the ox-eyed daisy and the sweet clovers I need not speak. You all know 
their capabilities. 
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF KANSAS COLEOPTERA FOR THE 
YEARS 1899 AND 1900. 
BY WARREN KNAUS, MCPHERSON. 
Read before the Academy December 28, 1900. 
The additions to the list of Kansas coleoptera for the past two seasons num- 
ber 236 species, a much larger number than has been added in recent years. 
This has largely been through the work of Mr. F. F. Crevecceur, of Onaga, Kan., 
who has, by careful collecting among the small forms near his home, added 150 
species. Quite a number of those added the past two years were rareand unique 
forms, representing the northern extension of the Texan fauna. 
The present additions bring the number of Kansas coleoptera up to 2500, and 
a careful revision of material now in Kansas collections would certainly increase 
this number to a considerable extent. 
The bulk of the determinations in the present list were made by Mr. Charles 
Liebeck, of Philadelphia, Pa., in charge of the Dr. G. H. Horn collection of 
coleoptera; H.C. Fall, of Pasadena, Cal., and by the Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C., to whom acknowledgments are due. 
