430 ANNUAL REPORT. 



plants, if we could have but one, it should be the Kenilworth 

 Ivy, which will grow anywhere, requires but little earth, and 

 will cover brackets and baskets with a curtain of green. A tiny 

 part of this pretty trailer upon a bracket is a fine ornament for 

 any room. 



The Tradiscantias, also, are among the best of trailing plants; 

 they will grow beautifully where there is not a bit of sunshine. 

 There are four varieties of this plant, often called the ' ' Wander- 

 ing Jew." The newest is the pink, white and green; this is a 

 wonderfully attractive thing, and in a basket with the other va- 

 rieties would be charming. Some of the Sedams are good for this 

 purpose. 



Then we have the garden Moneywort, which will grow yards 

 in one summer, and the old ground ivy, which some think a pest, 

 but we like it for its old time, suggestive name, " Up the Hill to 

 Happiness," by which our grandmothers called it. 



But time would fail to tell of all the lovely things which we 

 find everywhere around us in boundless profusion. "We pause in 

 wonder when we contemplate the beauties of the floral world, 

 and can only exclaim, 



O! who that has an eye to see, 



A heart to feel, a tongue to ble's, 

 Can ever undelighted be, 



With Nature's magic loveliness. 



A QUAETER OF A CENTURY OF FAILURES IN FRUIT 



CULTURE.* 



BY A. W. SIAS, ROCHESTER, MINN. 



Some one has said of the poet Tennyson, that his ''vanity, 

 egotism and self-absorption are so great as to leave no room for 

 manners." Now, while I do not covet such a reputation as this, 

 I am at a loss to know how to relate all our failures without talk- 

 ing much about myself, and in that case, of course, I might be 

 mistaken for an egotist; but as I have the enviable reputation of 

 being a modest member of the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society, I shall try hard to maintain this distinction, of which I 

 am so justly proud, as this is a rare bird on our side of the river 



* From Wisconsin Horticultural Report, 1884. 



