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Green has raised them bj the hundreds from seeds 

 grown there. 



As a general thing the deutzias are worthless in the 

 west and the syringa or Philadelphus is shy about cross- 

 ing the Manitoba line. They seem to be doing all right 

 on the experiment grounds of the agricultural college 

 of Minnesota. 



So you see the need of consulting your nurseryman, 

 who has given years to patient research and experiments. 

 Don't trade off his experience for the alluring pictures 

 and smooth tongue of the tree fakir. It is of prime im- 

 portance to plant things that will live. It is sad to 

 think of the millions expended on failures. While out 

 lecturing for our university in a distant city, in an ad- 

 dress I noted that many things, especially azaleas, could 

 not be made to live in I^ebraska. A gentleman took 

 me to task. ^'You just walk three blocks and I will 

 show you one of the finest azaleas you ever set eyes 

 on.'' Said I: ^'I would walk ten miles to see a good 

 thrifty azalea growing in this vicinity for I lost 500 of 

 as fine plants as I ever saw and they were under a 

 screen at that. You cannot make them live in our soil." 

 ^^Well, I'll show you and I have ordered 12 azaleas. I 

 am to pay $12 for them." He triumphantly showed me 

 a fine bush which he and the owner said was one brilliant 

 mass of bloom. ^'But where is your azalea ?" I asked. 

 "That bush is a wigelia." The man was crestfallen. 

 ''Well," said he, ''I am in for it. But I'll let my order 

 stand." I told him he might as well plant oranges. 



There are some things we cannot account for in 



