ccounts, and advances the net returns for the goods
daily. The producer is able to get returns within two days. The total
cost is 5% on the gross sales; 3% for the auction company and 2% for the
Department of Markets for the advertising and for other overhead
expenses. Posters have been issued to advertise New York State apples.
As this Department has been working only for a short time, it is too
early to tell whether it is a success in every way.

We earnestly ask your co-operation in trying to solve the question of
marketing Minnesota apples. All interested must assist in this important
subject.

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WORLD'S TALLEST TREES.--The tallest trees are the Australian
eucalyptus, which attain a height of 480 feet.

GARDEN HELPS

Conducted by Minnesota Garden Flower Society

Edited by MRS. E. W. GOULD, 2644 Humboldt Avenue So.

Minneapolis.

HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

The new type of hardy chrysanthemums called "early-flowering" has been
largely developed by a Frenchman named August Nonin, of Paris, who has
devoted much of his life to perfecting this strain from seedlings of the
old-fashioned "mums" of our grandmothers' gardens. It is considered by
far the most satisfactory kind to grow out of doors, blossoming earlier
than the pompons. A few of the best of these early-flowering types are:
White--Crawford White, Dorothy, Milka and Normandie; yellow--E'toile
d'Or, Carrie, October Gold; pink--Beaurepaire, Eden, Le Danube; red and
bronze shades--Harvest Home, Firelight, A. Barham and Billancourt. These
are the earliest bloomers of this type.

Hardy pompons are still most largely grown for outdoor flowering, but of
these there is also a choice, as the earliest bloomers are the most
desirable to use. Lilian Doty, a large-flowered, clear, bright pink, is
considered the very best of these. Donald and Minta are other good
pinks. The earliest whites are Queen of the Whites, Waco, Grace and
Myer's Perfection. Jeanette, Wm. Sabey, Golden Climax and Zenobia are
the best yellows, and Julia Lagravere, Urith and Tiber the best crimson
and bronze shades. There are many other beautiful pompons, but they
bloom too late for practical out-of-door use.

The single mums have of late been used successfully out-of-doors when
early blooming varieties have been chosen.

Of these Elsa, Gladys Duckham and Mensa are the earliest whites: Ivor
Grant, Mrs. Southbridge and Mrs. Buckingham the earliest p