198 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BURNING BUSH. 



The native shrub, Euonymus atropurpureus, is one of the best 

 lawn shrubs that can be planted in this state. The Euonymus 

 Europaeus of the nurseryman is quite successful too but not so 

 hard}^ as our native shrub. 



RUSSIAN OLIVE. 



The Russian oleaster which accordingto Prof. Bailey is Elaeagnus 

 hortensis Songonica is iron-clad in hardiness and well adapted for 

 hedges. 



The buflfalo berry (Shepherdia argentea) is especially desirable 

 and equally hardy. The buffalo berry is dioecious, and in order to 

 obtain fruit one must have both staminate and pistillate trees. Our 

 trees proved to be all staminate. 



RIBES. 



Ribes Alpinum proves to be an ornamental bush of no mean 

 merit. It produces in the middle of the summer a small red fruit of 

 no great value. Ribes aureum is one of the most useful, early 

 flowering spring bushes. The species marked 148 Voronesh as sent 

 out by Prof. Budd does not differ very much from the old kind. 



CORNEL. 



The Cornus sanguinea has failed; and so has Cornus mas. Our 

 native cornel, or kinnikinic, is very desirable and useful. 



ELDER. 



Our native red-berried elder (Sambucus racemosa) is with us an 

 ornamental shrub of much merit. The common elder (Sambucus 

 Canadensis) does not do quite so well. The golden-leaved variety of 

 Sambucus nigra is of doubtful hardiness but grows strongly every 

 year and blooms freely. It may be used where yellow tints are re- 

 quired to light up a dark shrubbery. (We have no dark shrubberies 

 in western Minnesota). The cut-leaved elder is tender with us. 



SNOWB.\LL. 



Our common snowball grows well on the prairies of western Min- 

 nesota. A Russian varietj", distributed by Prof. Budd, is of rather 

 more compact habit and a freer bloomer. Our native Viburnum 

 lentago is as fine a shrub as any country produces and succeeds ad- 

 mirably in cultivation on the prairies. 



JUNEBERRY. 



Lovett's Success Juneberry produces a full crop with us; the na- 

 tive Juneberry does nearly as well; they are both worth planting 

 for their interesting white flowers and their soft velvety foliage in 

 early spring. 



PRIVET. 



The Russian privet is doing fairl}^ well with us. It holds its leaves 

 late in the fall with us — and this is an important point in its favor, 

 as almost everything that we are able to raise drops its leaves al 

 the first severe frost. 



