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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Each one of you know my pleasure on my return to my 

 own garden, for you experience the same pleasure when you 

 return to your gardens. When I left my garden was beautiful 

 with the early varieties ; on my return it was the later varieties 

 which made me glad that I possessed a garden of my own. Maud 

 L. Richardson and Enchanteresse were appreciated not only for 

 their beauty, which causes me to class them as extra high grade 



A vase of "Jubilee" peonies. 



varieties, but also because they added an extra week to the peony 

 season. 



One Thursday in June, it pleased me to get a letter from my 

 St. Paul friend and peony lover, Mr. D. W. C. Ruff, telling me 

 how fine his peonies were blooming, and the following morning, 

 while working in my own garden, the thought suddenly came to 

 me, that it would be delightful to see the famous peonies of the 

 great northwest. It took but a moment to begin to put the 

 thought into action, and in less than three hours I Was on my 

 way to the Twin Cities, and Saturday morning found me in the 

 most beautiful peony garden I had ever seen. LeCygne, La- 

 France, Solange, LaLoraine, Alsace Loraine, Sarah Bernhardt, 

 Madam Jules Dessert, Therese, Rosa Bonheur, Primevere, Mont 



