424 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



There are now over fifty kinds of gaillardies, and new ones 

 coming on all the time. We want more fall flowers ; and in our 

 mountains and on the plains we have more than forty kinds of asters 

 alone. Let these be improved, and we have a beautiful after-frost 

 flower. 



Where a plant like the paeony gets beyond its first hybridization 

 and becomes established, the florist is charmed by the constant sur- 

 prises in store for him. There is the great Festiva Maxima and 

 Floral Treasure — great hemispheres of loveliness six inches across ; 

 and on the other hand we have the delicate little Morning Star with 

 its exquisite rays converging at the center. Among a thousand seed- 

 lings there may not be one you would throw away, but you usually 

 find one among them that will be a glory. I know a lady in Indiana 

 who has placed several new ones before the public. For one she 

 received $150.00. I aided her in selling another for $100.00. So here 

 is a field into which ladies can enter where there is both pleasure and 

 profit. 



Fruits. — Blessings on the patient toilers of the northwest who 

 have moved the fruit belt 200 mile s north — and they will move it 

 further. What a discovery the Wealthy apple was ! It is probably 

 the most enormous bearer of all the trees in Nebraska. 



I believe Minnesota will yet raise peaches. The Brownings of 

 Illinois and Nebraska have been at work forty years, and now they 

 have a peach that reproduces itself. Dr. Bailey, of Iowa, has been at 

 work along that line. And this terrible year both these families of 

 trees bore many crops. 



I was shown a seedling peach at Beulah, Col. It was grow- 

 ing at an elevation of 6,000 feet. I have known frosts in June 

 at that place that would kill the young oak sprouts back six inches, 

 and that tree never failed for ten years. It was nearly killed when 

 I saw it, by a fire. They wanted to know how to propagate it. I 

 told them to plant the seeds. There is not another peach tree within 

 thirty miles. So by watching these hardy sports and choosing the 

 hardiest from them your children will raise peaches. 



What advance has been made in plums ? Father Terry, of Iowa, 

 has given us fifty new and fine sorts. All you have to do is to 

 keep on, and you will get there. Prof. Hansen will yet give us 

 something to be thankful for in the improved sand cherry, and some- 

 body will take the hardy buffalo berry and make a new fruit of it. 

 It has been known to double its size under good cultivation. 



I wish to mention two important adjuncts: one is the screen out 

 in the open — there is too much wind and too much sun. Have a 

 neat, tasteful screen of lath of any design you chose, and you have 

 forest conditions so dear to many tender flowers. With mulching 

 you can carry delicate flowers through, and when you are tired you 

 can come in and have a visit with them. 



A Farmer's Conservatory. — While in Massachusetts Mr. Parker, 

 now superintendent of the finest of the parks of Hartford, Conn., 

 showed a very economical plan he was then using. He had a simple 

 grate furnace, and made and ran a prostrate flue from it around the 

 building. The furnace was on one side the door and on the other 



