CHAPTER XLIV 

 PLANTS FOR MINNESOTA 



The lists given in this chapter cover the more common uses for which 

 plants are selected. Perennial lists are not given because perennial 

 plantings succeed according to the skill of the grower in adapting 

 them to his location and giving them necessary winter protection. 

 Constant care must be exercised to replace winter losses. The 

 discussion in the main part of the foregoing text under the different 

 lists and groups of plants applies equally well to most of the northern 

 part of the United States, including Minnesota and adjoining 

 territory. 



Throughout this region spring planting is preferable to autumn, if it 

 is done early enough, except of course for peonies and irises. In es- 

 pecially dry autumn weather autumn-planted stock is quite likely to 

 prove a total loss. Ordinary shrubs and trees can be moved in the 

 autumn under good conditions and this is also true of locally grown 

 conifers moved in September; but other plants, and especially the 

 perennials, should be moved only in the spring. Owing to the 

 severity of the climate, especially in dry winters, sometimes without 

 snow more than six inches deep, there is little tendency to encourage 

 experimenting with half-hardy stock and most of the lists given are 

 short. 



These lists apply to an area within a two-hundred-mile radius of the 

 Twin Cities in every direction. In eastern Wisconsin the Great 

 Lakes would temper the climate, while northern Minnesota would be 

 still more severe than at the Twin Cities, especially on sandy pine 

 soils. Western Minnesota is quite similar, but a little more subject to 

 drought and high winds. Central Iowa can grow a slightly larger 

 list of plants because of a warmer climate and perhaps a little more 

 rainfall. 



In making a selection of plants from any of the other lists in this book 

 for use in this region, first consult List XLIV-G to eliminate all types 

 which have proved not hardy. The other lists may be consulted freely 



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