350 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Mr. Reeves: For a late crop I should sow the Flat Dutch or 
the Purple Top. 
Mr. Brand: I was very much interested in Mr. Reeve’s paper. 
I think the turnip has not heretofore received its due amount of 
consideration. Let us look back a moment and see what the turnip 
has done. You go back and learn its history in detail, and you 
will see that the turnip developed the Polled Angus and produced 
some of the greatest milking cows on record, and developed the 
Devons like the Polled Angus and the Scotch Galloway, and how 
many other breeds of cattle I do not know. The turnip played a 
most important part in the development and improvement of those 
great breeds. I think it would be better for the farmers of America 
if they would pay more attention to the turnip in dairying than 
they do now. 
SOME SMALL EVERGREENS FOR LAWNS AND YARDS. 
MRS. A. W. MASSEE, ALBERT LEA. 
There is nothing that so adds to the appearance, the homelike look of a 
place as evergreens, judiciously selected and located. They are beautiful in 
summer, but in winter they are a joy—such a relief to the dreary prospect of 
a northern landscape. They are not only a source of pieasure and pride 
io the possessor, but speak cheer and comfort to every passer-by. The 
successful planter of evergreens might be (although I think he rarely is), a 
very selfish person, but that cannot prevent the public enjoying the fruits 
of his labors. And why should we not plant for the public as well as our- 
selves? Is it not our duty as far as our circumstances will admit to add 
to the pleasure, comfort and prosperity of the community in which we dwell? 
And perhaps in no way may we do this as well as by making our home sur- 
roundings attractive, comfortable and cheerful in winter, as well as in sum- 
mer, by planting evergreens. 
Just imagine every farmhouse in this county surrounded by clumps and 
hedges of evergreens judiciously placed. What a transformation in the 
face of the country!- It would not be recognizable. It would be a different 
country; I believe a different climate. How much would it add to our com- 
fort and enjoyment? How much in dollars and cents to the valuation of 
the county? This last would be no mean sum, and the subject might well be 
studied by those who care more for the financial than the esthetic side of 
the question. Yet we see very few’evergreens either in country or town. 
Why? All admit their beauty and usefulness. I believe the main reason is 
this: it is thought by most people that the conifers are exceedingly hard 
to manage, very difficult to transplant, and that only a favored few can have 
any luck with them. And they are partially right. You cannot have 
any luck with them. They are not built that way. Still, if you know how, 
and do it, they are just as easily planted and managed as any other class of 
trees and shrubs, providing the trees, or rather the roots, are all right when 
received from the grower. In the past, quite a considerable number of 
evergreens have been planted but the planters mostly failed, because, per- 
