38O MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



sweetest and most useful of all roses. None can surpass the deli- 

 cacy of its coloring. 



Coquette des Blanches: Pure white, sometimes faintly tinged 

 with pink ; flowers of medium size, somewhat flat, but full and very 

 pretty ; growth more bushy and symmetrical than any of the others. 

 Later than the rest in coming into flower. 



Coquette des Alps: White, slightly shaded with carmine; me- 

 dium size; form semi-cupped; wood, long jointed. This and Co- 

 quette des Blanches the best white Hybrid Perpetuals. 



A PLAN FOR HOME GROUNDS. 



MISS MABEL G. PAI.MER, MINN. SCHOOL OF AGRICTI.TURE. 



The home grounds should be a picture. The lawn and gardens 

 should be as attractive as it is possible to make them, and this kind 

 of beauty is more surely secured by the use of taste and labor than 

 by spending money. 



Let us take a plot of about three acres, about thirty rods long 

 and fifteen rods wide, on the south side of a farm of one hundred 

 and sixty acres, a southwest quarter section. The plot is to be laid 

 out into a lawn about the house, a vegetable and small fruit garden 

 and a windbreak. The house is about one hundred feet from the 

 road. Back of the house is the milk house and windmill. 



The most important thing to bear in mind is that of having a 

 definite plan before beginning work. This plan cannot be worked 

 out in a year. It may take a life time to work it out. There is, 

 however, a continued pleasure in seeing the farm grow to one's own 

 plan and ideal. It will be something of which the generations that 

 follow will be proud. One should plant around the borders rather 

 than follow the usual plan of scattering the trees and shrubbery all 

 over the lawn without any definite idea of why they are arranged 

 in that way. This secures more real beauty and gives a nice open 

 lawn in front of the house. If there is a lake or stream in the dis- 

 tance, leave or make an opening in the trees so that a view of it 

 can be enjoyed from the windows and porches of the house. 



The buildings and garden should be protected by a windbreak 

 on the north and west sides. It should be so placed because the cold 

 winds come from these directions. A good windbreak for Minne- 

 sota might consist of two rows of white willow, one row green ash, 

 one row red cedar, and one row plum trees. They are all rapid 

 growing trees and do well in Minnesota when not protected. The 

 white willow is a good tree to plant on the outside for this reason. 



