n them blossom many times in Winnebago.

Mrs. Countryman: Give us the culture instructions.

Mr. Richardson: I grew in nursery rows some odd stuff, had the same
culture that the nursery had. But when it blossomed one year I have been
told on good authority it would be five years before that stalk would
blossom again, only blossoms once in five years, but by having many
stalks they don't all blossom at the same time. I have had them two or
three years in succession but not on the same stalk.

Mrs. Countryman: Do you cover them winters?

Mr. Richardson: Never.

Mr. Hawkins: I think the only reason why the yucca filamentosa doesn't
do well is because it is a plant of the southwest and grows in a warmer
climate.

Mrs. Sawyer: I had a varied experience in growing those plants, and I
took a great deal of pains to learn all I could from different sources
and different people, and I believe our trouble is our late frosts, I
think that is conceded by people who have really gone into the question
thoroughly. Our late frosts injure them more than anything else. A
little protection in the spring is what they need more than protection
in winter, and we know that they don't want a wet place.

Mr. Hawkins: I want to recommend a flower that should be very popular.
It is perfectly hardy, blossoms for years, the hardy pyrethrum. It is a
daisy-like flower, absolutely free from insects and a sure bloomer. We
have plants in the garden that have bloomed six years. It comes in many
shades, from white to deep crimson, blooms from the 15th of May to the
1st of July and makes a beautiful showing. In regard to iris, did any
one have any trouble with their iris coming a little ahead of time last
year and being frozen?

Mrs. Sawyer: I guess they all froze off. I don't think it was because
they were ahead of time; it was because of the frost.

Mr. Hawkins: What would you recommend?

Mrs. Sawyer: I don't think there is anything to do in weather like last
spring, you can't cover anything away from a hard black frost like that
was.

[Illustration: G. C. Hawkins, of Minneapolis.]

Mr. Hawkins: We have several hundred plants on a southern slope, and I
thought perhaps the sun beating against the southern slope is what
started them earlier.

Mrs. Sawyer: Ours weren't on a southern slope, pretty near level, rather
north than anything else, and they got frozen.

A Member: What causes the rot in the iris?

Mr. Hawkins: That depends upon the