l65 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



While planting our annuals be sure and have lobelia, sweet alys- 

 sum and mignonette as border plants. Those who have not used 

 them, try them, and you will always have a border for each walk. 



The sweet peas being planted about the first of April are up 

 nicely and need their support. The dirt should be drawn up to 

 them, and if they were planted in a place carefully prepared and en- 

 riched will grow to be from six to eight feet high. The earlier sweet 

 peas are planted the deeper the roots will go, and you will have 

 greener foliage and larger flowers. 



Let us have an arbor or two and use some of the pretty climbing 

 vines. The clematis paniculata is a beautiful vine, and there are 

 the cinnamon vine, morning glory, hardy moonflowers and all of 

 the ivies. 



Every spring my husband will say, "What are you going to 

 change this spring?" Perhaps no one else finds this shrub or that 

 plant in the wrong place, but I do. I think we amateurs should 

 always be on the lookout and study every lawn and flower garden 

 we pass, and see where we have made a mistake, or where some 

 one else has failed, and why? For we all have failures in our 

 gardens — I know I had one last summer. Let us see all flowers in 

 bloom before buying, and when we go where there are nice flowers 

 take a note book along. 



I have mentioned quite a large number of flowers. Choose those 

 that you like and that will do best' in your garden. It is better to 

 have a few nice ones than a great many poorly taken care of. We 

 should take good care of our lawns and flower gardens, as they 

 count for so much in the appearance of the home. 



Prof. Washburn: I would like to inquire of Mrs. Gibbs 

 whether she used Bordeaux mixture on her asters. 



Mrs. Gibbs : I used it three or four times, but I do not believe 

 I had one perfect blossom. I mulched them, and I did everything 

 that anybody told me to do. 



The Chairman: What seemed to be the trouble? You call it 

 blight. 



Mrs. Gibbs: I think I had more than one trouble with as- 

 ters. One thing, they would turn brown, the leaves would become 

 spotted, and especially the large plants that had large leaves at the 

 branching point would blight the worst ; I noticed at the branching 

 point there was a little spider, and I think that had a good deal to 

 do with killing them. 



Mrs. Hansen : I had 1,400 asters last year, and I used Bordeaux 

 mixture to spray, and I think I picked at least five thousand flowers. 



