alendar for Mey. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, MINN. STATE EXP. STATION. 
Red cedar seed sown a yearago did not start last season. The 
bed was covered about one inch deep with hay. I find now, April 
10th, that almost every one is starting; some of them, in fact, are. 
above ground. 
Arbor vitz flowered this year before April 12th,and at that date 
some of the flowers had already dried up. Buffalo berry were in full 
flower by the 18th, and these early flowering plants set fruit with 
great certainty. I wish that our cultivated fruits had flowers as 
_ hardy against frost. 
We got in our onions and sweet peas the 12th of April and had 
them covered with a light snow, which was far better than a rain 
would have been. 
The planting of strawberries will ordinarily commence about the 
first of May. There are many new candidates for favor this season, 
but as yet I know of no varieties that are more promising than the 
older sorts recommended by the State Horticultural Society. 
Among the best perfect flowering kinds are the Lovett, but I have 
heard reports about its not standing well over winter, although it 
has shown no such weakness at this station. In transplanting 
strawberries it is very desirable to use some of the transplanters 
which take up a ball of earth with the plant. Plants moved in this 
way seldom fail and seem hardly to know that they have been 
moved, It requires a little more time than to set in the old way, but 
it pays. I think this year we shall put strawberries in rows six feet 
apart; heretofore we have put them four feet apart, but the six feet 
interval allows plenty of room for the mulch when it is taken 
off the plants, and it is then easily accessible for covering 
them if the plants are endangered by late frosts. It is im- 
portant to uncover all plants before the buds start into leaf; if, 
however, you find the buds have started a good deal when you come 
to uncover them, I think itis desirable to leave a little of the loose 
mulch on, especially in case of strawberries, to partially shade them 
should the weather be very bright and dry. 
Stock that was dug and heeled in last month may still be planted, 
and if the weatheris favorable it will be found that many of our 
