CHAPTER V 



PERENNIALS AND OTHER FLOWERS 



WHEN one whose experience in gar- 

 dening has been bounded by a few 

 varieties of bedding-out plants like Gera- 

 niums, Coleus, Salvias, and Petunias, begins 

 to plant perennials, she is apt to be disap- 

 pointed with the first year's results. She 

 has seen great clumps of perennials in a 

 friend's garden, has read of their beauty, 

 has seen pictures of them in catalogues, but 

 when her Paeonies bear no blossoms, her 

 Phlox has only two or three heads of bloom, 

 the Larkspur one or two spikes of varied 

 blue, and the Valerian, Veronica, Monks- 

 hood, and Hollyhocks all flower sparingly, 

 she cries in her heart for the bedding-out 

 plants which were her mainstay in former 

 years. Let her have patience, however, and 

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