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MINNEOSOTA WILD FLOWERS 
MINNESOTA NATIVE PLANTS 
The following plants are delivered post- 
paid during the spring and again in the 
fall, when they are in condition for ship- 
ping. 
The prices asked are very low and any 
one wanting these beautiful natives from 
the far North should order NOW. 
AQUILEGIA Canadensis. The American 
Columbine. Good for the rockery or tha 
border; sun or part shade. 
ASARUM CANADENSIS. Wild Ginger. 
Good ground cover for shady places; if you 
need a quantity ask for special price. 
ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM. Jack-in-the 
Pulpit. A hard-to-find wood plant that 
should be in every wild garden. 
CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. Blue 
Cohosh. Deep blue berries in fall; 2 ft. 
CLINTONIA EOREALIS. Bluebeads. Small 
lily-like bloom in spring; very dark blue 
berries in the fall; acid soil. 
DODECATHEON MEDIA. Shooting Stars. 
White to rosy purple Cyclamen-like blos- 
soms in the spring. 
GERANIUM MACULATUM. Wild Geran- 
ium. Rosy pink blooms for the rockery or 
border; 1 foot high. 
HEPATICA TRILOBA. Round Lobed Hep- 
atica. White to deep blue blossoms; acid. 
IRIS VERSICOLOR. Blue Flag. For moist 
places; see Iris list for other species. 
MIMULUS RINGENS. Monkey Flower. 
Blue Snapdragon-like blossoms with yel- 
low centers; 2 feet high. 
PARNASSIA PALUSTRIS. Grass Parnassus 
White buttercup-like blossoms on slender 
stems. 
POLYGONATUM BIFLORUM. 
Seal. Drooping white bells, 
nearly black berries. 
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 
Root. White blossoms in early 
showy leaves until late summer. 
TRILLIUM CERNUUM. Nodding Trillium. 
Drooping white blossoms. 
UVULARIA PERFOLIATA. Merrybells, 
Drooping yellow bells in the spring; easy 
to grow in the shade. It is good. 
VIOLA BLANDA. Sweet White Violet. 
Fragrant small white Violet for naturaliz- 
ing in the wild garden. 
Solomon’s 
followed by 
Blood 
spring; 
VIOLA RUGULOSA. Tall Stemmed White 
Violet. Blooms nearly all summer; ideal 
for your wild garden, too. 
VIOLA CONSPERSA. Dog Violet. Pale 
blue flowers in early spring; for the wild 
garden for early flowers. . 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA. Lady Fern. 
One of the easiest ferns for shady placed 
in the border or wild garden. 
DRYOPTERIS DILATATA. Mountain Fan- 
cy Fern. Beautiful evergreen fern; best 
in moist shady places in the border or in 
the wild garden or woods. 
DRYOPTERIS LINNEANA. Oak Fern. A 
beautiful tiny six inch fern with branched 
fronds that should go well in any shady 
-moist place where small ferns would do. 
DRYOPTERIS PHEGOPTERIS. Narrow 
Beech Fern. Arrowhead-shaped fronds on, 
6-8 inch stems; another fine fern for moist 
shady piaces in the border or wild garden. 
DRYOPTERIS THELYPLERIS. March 
Fern. Upright fronds to 18 inches; moist 
spots in either sun or shade. 
PTERETIS NODULOSA. Ostrich Ferns 
For sun or shade; a graceful fern growing 
to 5 feet; a sight in the woods or wild 
garden where the sun gets thru. 
PRICES: On your selection of ANY 6 
plants $1.80; ANY 12 for only $3.00; or 
you can select 35 plants any way you wish 
for only $8.00; posipaid. Certainly a bar- 
gain. Remember these are all HARDY. 
AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS. 
Berry; a hardy shrub. 
June 
ARONIA MELANOCARPA. Black Choke- 
berry; wild life shrub for food and shelter. 
CORNUS ALTERNIFOLIA. 
wood. 
CORNUS STOLONIFERA. Red Osier Dog- 
wood. 
ILEX VERTICILLATA. Winterberry; a 
good shelter shrub for wild life. 
Pagoda Dog- 
DIRCA CANADENSIS. Leatherwood. A 
small plant 6-12 inches high. 
SAMBUCUS PUBENS. Red Berried Elder, 
This is a good shrub for a game shelter 
as well as for food. 
SYMPHORICARPUS RACEMOSUS NAN- 
US. Dwarf Snowberry; a good shrub for 
difficult embankments. 
VIBURNUM DENTATUM. Arrowwood. 
VIBURNUM LENTAGO. Nanny Berry. 
PRICES: ANY TWO PLANTS for $1.00 
or ANY 6 for only $3.50; postpaid. If you 
wish any quantity for planting for bird 
shelter and food, write for special prices. 
CYPRIPEDIUM ACAULE. Pink Moccasin 
Flower. 
CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLORUM. Small 
Yellow Lady Slipper. 
CYPRIPEDIUM SPECTABILE. Showy 
Lady Slipper. 
CYPRIPEDIUM PRICES 
ANY TWO for ONLY $1.50; ANY six for 
only $4.00. This price is very low for these 
very hard-to-find plants. 
RAY FLOWERS 
Ray flowers are those that are made up 
of a multitude of small individual flowers 
as in the Sunflower. Each one of these 
little flowers forms a seed. Around this 
flower-head are the ray-flowers. These are 
always attractive and afford a sort of a 
landing field for the particular insect that 
usually does the pollinating work. 
It might be well to mention for the benefit 
of the investigative gardener that there ig 
a difference in these individual flowers, 
whether the seed comes from around the 
outside of the crown or at the middle; try 
this out on some of your ray-flowers. 
HELP WANTED!! 
Have just received my special seed list 
and magazine for February and I think it ig 
wonderful and so complete. 
Please send one to this friend of mine 
so she won’t be forever borrowing mine.. 
Musa or Banana seed holds its germin- 
ation for less than a year, so that orders for 
the seed should be placed and than patiently 
wait till it comes in when it will be dis- 
patched immediately. The seed comes from 
the tropics and people in these regions dd 
not rush out and gather seed just because 
someone orders a packet; we have to wait! 
Iris for Special Places 
This list could be added to and other 
species of Iris included. We try to grow 
ourselves as many of the species as we car 
and like to hear from any reader who also 
is interested in these. 
For Shady Places: 
I. foetidissima. (also ornamental fruits). 
I. verna. 
I. fulva. 
I. albopurpurea. 
I. sibirica. 
Greenhouse (Tender): 
I. hexagona. (Set out). 
I. japonica. (Pots or set out). 
Wet or Watery Places: 
I. laevigata (Kaempferi). 
I. pseudacorus. 
For pots, Ornamental Species: 
unguicularis. 
japonica. 
tectorum. 
pumila. 
Chamaeiris. 
Bakeriana. 
reticulata. 
persica. 
Tauri. 
. alata. 
. Xiphium. 
I. stenophylla. 
Mr. Robert Henningsen of Portland just 
writes that he has the following species in 
his collection: bracteata, Bulleyana, Clarkei, 
cristata, Delavayi, foetidissima, Forrestii; 
fulva, giganticoerulea, Germanii, gracilipes, 
graminea, MHartwegii, Hoogiana, innomin- 
ata, japonica, the wild Kaempferi, Korol- 
kowi, laevigata, longipetala, macrosiphon, 
mellita, milesii, minuta, missouriensis, mon- 
neri, oOchroleuca, ruthenica, orientalis, set- 
osa, siberica, tectorum, tenax, tenuis, Thomp- 
sonii, unguicularis in 5 or six forms, verna, 
and versicolor as well as many hybrids and 
some species of which he has only one plant. 
and which has not bloomed for him. Wea 
have many of the above list and will try to 
list them soon. We are always pleased to 
exchange with other growers that we both 
can extend our collections. 
COONS AND THE BIRDS 
We have great many birds in our yard 
and the Robins and Cardinals are especially 
liked. On our back porch a Cardinal al- 
ways roosts at night and builds their nest 
in the rambler rose, however I have never 
actually seen the little birds mature in the 
nest, they always disappear. At first I 
blamed the cat but last night I discovered 
the real trouble, COONS. 
A coon came onto the porch and got a 
Starling and the Cardinal off their roosting 
place. At first I did nothing, thinking that 
some bird had fallen off his perch but upon 
hearing more noise, I took the flash light 
and just as I spotted the coon, he got the 
Starling and just at that moment the poor 
Cardinal fluttered against the other window 
and immediately the coon had it. I hurried 
for my shot gun but he was gone, the birds 
laying where he had killed them. I then 
waited for his return but he got the carcasses 
without my hearing him. 
Hereafter when I hear a bird flutter 
against the window at night, I shall turn off 
the lights so that it will fly away and not 
be so easily caught. There is war declared 
on the coons around here with no armistic 
granted. 
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 12 ISSUES 
