404 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pres, Underwood: In connection with this subject of flowers, 

 I feel interested in stimulating a particular scheme of mine. I 

 have tried to get all the talk out of you I could and not say 

 much myself, but just now I want to say something about this 

 scheme of mine. How many are there here that have a plant 

 room to the house? I am going to make the statement that 

 every house that is built ought to have a plant room. I mean 

 a room distinctively for plants, and I am going to make the 

 proposition that you ought to keep your plants in one room, 

 and that that room ought to be built on every house. The 

 executive committee thought that because I had something to 

 do with building a couple of new greenhouses last year I ought 

 to know all about greenhouses, so they put me on the com- 

 mittee on horticultural structures and greenhouses. I suppose 

 they thought a man knew more when he started in on a thing 

 than he did five or ten years later. All I wish to say, however, 

 on that line is on plant rooms, and I think I do know something 

 about that subject from the experience in my own home during 

 my married life. 



GREENHOUSE AND BEDDING PLANTS. 



M. E. POWELL, ST. PETER. 



Being requested by the society to write on the above subject, I 

 confess I am greatly enibarassed, and fear that iny comments will, 

 to you, seem "warmed over," and simply a repetition of what we all 

 know; that many of the florist members of the society could do the 

 subject more justice, from their long experience and more thorough 

 knowledge, is beyond dispute. 



In the limited time we have for the presentation of the many 

 varieties grown, the descriptions must, of necessitj^ be condensed. 

 A botanical classification would be useless, and long lists are very 

 confusing, therefore mj- aim is to describe only those varieties hav- 

 ing distinct characteristics. 



Roses. — The first, of course, is the rose, which is the most popular 

 flower grown, and which is mentioned in the earliest sacred writ- 

 ings. Of its primitive historj' and culture we are in profound 

 ignorance, also as to the origin of some of our most highly prized 

 varieties. 



It is with hesitation that I give a list of a few of those most grown 

 at the present time, as introductions of new kinds, known as the 

 finest today, will, ver}' likelj', be discarded and deemed unworth}- 

 of cultivation in a few years. 



The following is a partial list of those now considered best; Perle 

 des Jardins, Wabau, Madam Hoste, Souvenir de Wootton, Catherine 



