ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



the previous Winter seemed to have benefited 

 from the cold. 



Last Winter many hardy plants that per- 

 ished in our part of the country lived under 

 equally low temperatures in other places. 

 Evidently these particular plants were not 

 accustomed to the unusually low tempera- 

 ture, zero or a few degrees below having 

 been the maximum of cold they had pre- 

 viously experienced, while in other places, 

 although as cold, or even colder, the tem- 

 perature did not, as with us, fall below that 

 of previous Winters. Foxgloves and Can- 

 terbury Bells, usually entirely hardy, suf- 

 fered greatly; so did the Gaillardias; the 

 Helianthus ftorus plenus was killed; but 

 Tritomas, young plants, too, not considered 

 very hardy, came finely through the Win- 

 ter, the foot of mulch with which they were 

 covered having completely protected them. 



There is no more decorative plant for 

 tropical effect that can be grown in the 

 front of a shrubbery or planted at the back 



