rding should not fail to hear what he has to say on
the subjects he presents.

Mr. N. A. Rasmussen, of Oshkosh, Wis., is also to be with us and will be
found several times on the program. Being an expert in market gardening
we are going to work him to the limit while he is with us. We anticipate
that Secretary Cranefield of the Wisconsin Society, will also spend the
week with us. Prof. C.B. Waldron will be here as representative of the
North Dakota Society, and also Prof. F.W. Broderick of Winnipeg as
representing the Winnipeg Horticultural Society--and of course our Prof.
N.E. Hansen, of South Dakota. All of these friends will be found on the
program.

There may be others, but this will do for a start.

[Illustration: VIEW OVER VEGETABLE TABLE AND ACROSS FRUIT EXHIBIT AT
1916 MINNESOTA STATE FAIR. MR. THOS. REDPATH, SUPT. FRUIT
EXHIBIT.]

While it is not the intention to publish anything in this
magazine that is misleading or unreliable, yet it must be
remembered that the articles published herein recite the
experience and opinions of their writers, and this fact must
always be noted in estimating their practical value.

THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST

Vol. 44 DECEMBER, 1916 No. 12

Perennial Garden at Carmarken, White Bear.

J. W. TAYLOR, ST. PAUL.

We have had so many inquiries about our garden as to how we make things
grow, and as to the best plants to use, that we take pleasure in
answering through the Horticulturist and giving the result of our
experience in making an attractive perennial garden. Our soil is sandy
loam, very quick and warm, except in one place where it is low and there
is a heavy black soil over clay. It has been well enriched with well
rotted manure and cultivated as much as possible every spring, where it
could be done without disturbing plants and bulbs. The arrangement of
flowers as regards the blending and careful selection so that one bloom
does not kill another is the secret of a beautiful garden. Acres of
flowers placed without any regard to color, no matter how expensive
individual plants may be, is not pleasing to the eye. It is like a crowd
of mixed people, and we know crowds are never beautiful. There is
incompatibility among flowers as there is among people, and the
compatible must be associated or there is no harmony.

What do we raise and how do we do it? We will, in the space allowed,
answer this as best we can. It is not necessary