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our wild honeysuckles, our Virginia creeper, our climbing- bitter- 

 sweet and our burning bush. 



I once made a drive in this city (Minneapolis) with a member ot 

 the park board by the way of Loring Park, Kenwood Boulevard, 

 Lake Calhoun, Lake Harriet, and then south to Minnehaha Creek. 

 We saw the best that the landscape architect was able to do; but 

 it was not until we came out on the boulevard along Minnehaha 

 Creek and saw nature's own inimitable planting, made up wholly 

 of grass, flowers and our own native trees and shrubs, that we saw 

 a restful, satisfying picture. 



The President: It seems to me this is a subject that all mem- 

 bers know something about: trees that belong to this high north- 

 ern latitude that for centuries have withstood our long winters and 

 our drouths. I think he left *out one we used to cultivate in Massa- 

 chusetts and New Hampshire in our gardens, the little waxberry, 

 or snowberry. It grows on the prairies, bearing little white wax- 

 like berries. 



Mr. Geo. R. Hazzard: At the Interstate Park I have been 

 looking after the native plants and trees and trying to arouse the ap- 

 preciation of the people who live there, but I am sorry to say a 

 great many do not know what they have there. I came over to this 

 city a few years ago to attend the meeting of the American Park 

 and Out-Door Art Association, and I was glad to see their appre- 

 ciation of our native shrubs and trees. I hope every man and 

 woman here will go home filled with the desire to do something 

 for their school houses and their neighborhoods in the way of 

 ornamental planting of trees and shrubs. Do not forget that our 

 native shrubs and mosses can be made to grow. 



Mr. Yahnke: I would like to ask whether any one has had 

 any experience with the Mayday shrub. I got this shrub from 

 Prof. Budd, of Ames, Iowa, about ten years ago, but I am very 

 much disappointed in it. It looks too much like the flowering al- 

 mond, but it does not bloom, and I would like to know whether 

 anybody else has had any experience with it. 



Mr. Wedge: I think I know something about that shrub. I 

 cannot say that I have had a different experience from that of Mr. 

 Yahnke, but I suppose in sending out such a multitude of things 

 they expressed something else, as a nurseryman might be likely 

 to do. I think there was sent out some seedling, something differ- 

 ent from what was intended to be sent, as my neighbor, Mr. Kim- 

 ball, of Austin, has a Mayday tree from Ames, and his is very 

 pretty and nice, and he esteems it one of the finest things on his 

 place. It seems to be a very hardy native and resembles what we 

 received from Prof. Budd. 



However, I want to say a little something about our emphasiz- 

 ing the native shrubs. I presume the danger is really the other way, 

 and we are more likely to overlook the native shrubs. The state- 

 ment is made too strong by horticulturists. I think we ought to be 

 careful to be cosmopolitan in our tastes and accept whatever is 



