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all sturdy growers and will take care of themselves. Coreopsis 

 and gaillardia begin to bloom in June and keep it up until frost. 



Canterbury bells and foxgloves are biennials, but really 

 deserve a place in your garden just for their beauty. If you 

 start the seeds early in the spring and transplant in June, about 

 half of them will bloom the next summer. This is just as well, 

 because the rest of them will bloom the following year, and the 

 first ones will seed themselves down, thus establishing your suc- 

 cession. 



Of the late flowers, that is, from August on, there is the 

 dahlia and the gladioli, classed as perennials in some books. The 



. Beautiful white peony plant on home place of A. W. Richardson. Howard Lake 



hardy aster, golden glow, Chinese lantern plant, pyrethrum uli- 

 ginosum, boltonia, platycodon and mallow are all fall flowers 

 Delphiniums will bloom the second and third time if cut back 

 each time as soon as the flowers fade. Sometimes you can coax 

 the hardy chrysanthemum to bloom late in September, but it is 

 uncertain, depending entirely on the season. 



There are some shrubs that deserve a place in the perennial 

 garden, to be used as a background, or to cover up unsightly 

 spots. Among these are the lilac, snowball, mock orange, spirea 

 Van Houttii, hydrangea and the rugosa rose. 



There are a great many splendid perennials that I have not 

 mentioned, not because they do not deserve a place in the hardy 

 garden, but because I know the ones I have talked about give 

 the best results, for the least expenditure of time and labor. 



