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to our own particular region. When we investigate our flow- 

 er gardens with botanical manual in hand we soon find tliat 

 many that we prize most highly, if not native to our own re- 

 gion, are native to the next state or county. Yet there are 

 many who consider that a plant has no beauty if it grows 

 wild in the fields. We find a good illustration of this in a 

 paragraph from a current nursery catalogue as follows: "We 

 have recently received a long and indignant letter from a cus- 

 tomer who complains that many of the plants we had sent 

 him were wild-flowers, some of them growing in his own 

 neighborhood. Two of the things he complained of were 

 dogwood and Liliiim superb inn. Surely these fine things are 

 none the less fine because they grow in many places. If we 

 could find sufficient \ariety in the wild growth of our neigh- 

 borhood we would give it the preference, as it would be certain 

 to thrive in our climate and soil. Our customer complained 

 that we fooled him with high-sounding names. Now we are 

 not responsible for the names and we do not want to fool any- 

 one, but we fear we must continue selling wildflowers." 



The Time to ]\Iove Perennials. — A friend who culti- 

 vates many of our wild plants in his garden told the editor 

 recently that he had discovered the proper time to move peren- 

 nial plants. When asked when this time was. he replied 

 "whenever you find them." There is a great deal of trnth in 

 this statement. Ordinarily gardeners, it is true, prefer to 

 move plants in the late fall or early spring when they are dor- 

 mant, or nearly so, but nearly any plant can be moved in full 

 flower without loss if the cultivator will Init take the necessary 

 care of the plant until it gets settled in its new location. The 

 essential things to be observed are to get as many of the roots 

 as possible, to keep them cool and moist while out of the 

 ground, to lose no more time than necessary in replanting-, to 

 shade for a few days if the sun is hot, and to water the plant 



