ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



wait for the second Summer of the peren- 

 nials. Coleus will then no longer find a 

 place in her garden, and the number of 

 Geraniums planted will be reduced to a 

 minimum. 



Would that the Coleus might vanish from 

 the land! But, after all, it is not the plants, 

 poor things, but the people who grow them 

 who are to blame. 



Geraniums cannot be condemned to the 

 same extent, for they bear flowers, and 

 have besides done valuable service during 

 all the years when gardening consisted 

 largely of beds of every conceivable shape, 

 filled with them, of one color or another. 

 They do not reach perfection before July, 

 and die with the coming of the early frost. 



No matter how small may be the place 

 devoted to flowers, plant it with perennials, 

 fill in the chinks with hardy annuals raised 

 from seed, and there will be flowers of many 

 varieties to bloom from May to November. 



Perennials increase in size and beauty 

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