4IO MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Victoria Tricolor. — Outer petals pale rose mottled with 

 pink, center ones yellowish white, with few red marks ; flowers 

 ot good size, full and sweet. 



Plants can also be grown from seed, which should be gath- 

 ered as soon as ripe and either planted or stratified in sand until 

 fall, when it should be planted. Plants raised from seed do not 

 come true to the parent plant but generally produce good flowers. 

 Seed should be selected from the choicest plants and flowers. 

 Many of the choicest peonies do not produce seed and cannot 

 be grown in this manner. Roots grown from seed do not bloom 

 for five or six years ; therefore, this manner of propagation is 

 very slow, but in an experimental way is "very interesting. 



FLOWERS IN MANITOBA. 



Wil. G. SCOTT, "WINNIPEG, 



In this paper I have included only those perennials that T 

 have been growing for a number of years in my own garden 

 near Winnipeg and a few varieties that have been found hardy 

 at the Dominion Experimental Farm at Brandon, which I have 

 not yet tested in my own grounds.. These may be regarded as 

 hardy in any part of Minnesota, the Dakotas and the Canadian 

 West. 



The first to bloom is the bulbous plant, Scilla Sibirica, closely 

 followed b)' Arabis albida, and then by Hesperis matronalis, in 

 two colors. After these come the beautiful family of Iris, the 

 first to flower in my garden being the Iris sibirica orientalis, a 

 splendid variety, being deep blue in color, in clusters on long 

 stems. These are followed by the Iris Germanica, of which I 

 grow a large number, and which are beautiful in their various 

 shades of blue, purple and yellow. I have not yet tried Iris 

 Kaempferi (Japan Iris), but Mr. Bedford, the 'director of the 

 Brandon Experimental Farm, reports on these as follows : "A 

 valuable addition to our collection of perennials was received 

 from the Experimental Farm at Ottawa, in the spring of 1905, 

 and planted in the perennial garden. These produced some 

 very fine specimens of blooms which were greatly admired." 



Next come the Paeonies, and of these I have a large num- 

 ber, and they are in bloom for a long period. They begin to 

 flower about the end of June and continue through July. The 

 first to bloom is the Officinalis section (Paeonia officinalis). 



