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were working there selecting the best plants for seed, tying a string 

 around them so the seed would be saved, and it impressed itself upon 

 my mind as a wonderful piece of work, and also that the field is 

 too vast, and that some of the varieties that are promising in the 

 west should be taken up by amateurs who can devote the care to 

 the work that is necessary. The commercial man is too busy to 

 follow up the matter ; he has to stick to commercial things, and so it 

 remains for amateurs to take it up and give the loving care to it 

 that is necessary. 



Mr. C. S. Harrison : The phloxes are coming more and more 

 into favor ; they are perfectly hardy, and they can be regulated so 

 they will bloom from June to November. It is more easy to raise 

 than the paeony, because you have to wait five or seven years for 

 the paeony you grow from seed, while the phlox comes into bloom 

 at once. Now you take the phlox and put it out in the spring, 

 and it will begin to bloom in July and continue to bloom until the 

 first frost comes along. It is a little matter to give it the proper 

 attention. There has been very little work done along some of 

 these lines, but there are immense possibilities. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot : Are you speaking of the perennial or the 

 annual phlox? 



Mr. Harrison : The perennial every time ; I do not bother with 

 the other. This western world is the busy end of the world, espe- 

 cially in the spring time, and we have to plant things that stay 

 planted, and so we have been giving special attention to varieties 

 that will not need so much special care and attention every year. 



GINSENG (POMAX ININQUEFOLIUM). 



PRESTON MC CULLEY, MAPLE PLAIN. 



This plant grows wild in most of the hardwood forests, from 

 Maine to Minnesota, growing, as it does, on the richest soil. The 

 forest has been cut down and good farms made where ginseng used 

 to be dug in large quantities, and what is left has been searched for 

 so closely that there is very little left, except in some remote localities. 

 Therefore, if we would keep on supplying the Chinese with ginseng 

 it must be cultivated. 



Many tried to grow the root, but failed ; some who were closer 

 students of nature succeeded in making it grow from seed and 

 roots, believing that if some way could be found whereby ginseng 

 could be grown that there would be co-isitjerable profit in doing so. 

 About six years ago, I learned that tli.^re were several men who 



