PLANTING PERENNIALS IN AUTUMN 



ALTHOUGH perennials are so easily 

 grown they are comparatively scarce 

 in Canadian gardens. There are sufficient 

 hardy varieties adapted to northern sections 

 to brighten up the gardens in the coldest 

 districts. The trouble is the people do not 

 know the plants. In some cases success 

 has been achieved with some common 

 plants, such as the Sweet William, but the 

 grower became tired of such commonplace 

 specimens and began experimenting with 

 new ones which are not so easily grown nor 

 yet so beautiful. 



The object should be to get those which 

 add the most beauty and can be grown most 

 easily. Although experiments should be 

 carried on with new introductions, this 

 should not cause the old stand-bys to be 

 discarded. If the new plant is a success, 

 get more of it, but also keep some of the 

 kind which seems more common. What 

 flowers give better effect than a bed of per- 

 ennial phlox or some Rudbeckia or even a 

 row of holyhocks? 



The border represented in the illustration 

 is composed of coreopsis and perennial 

 poppies, which gave good bloom during the 

 early part of the season, and different 



species of Boltonia, perennnal phlox and 

 pyrethrum for bloom later in the season. 

 This border produced a very striking effect. 



The different perennials capable of en- 

 during the most severe winters of Ontario 

 are too numerous to mention. The at- 

 tention required by them does not vary 

 much. The common method of propaga- 

 tion is by root division. In past years the 

 usual practice has been to do the trans- 

 planting in the spring of the year. Recent- 

 ly, however, many growers have been adopt- 

 ing fall planting, and in most cases success 

 has been the result. 



" Such plants as phlox, peonies, golden 

 glow, bleeding heart and the German iris." 

 said Mr. Geo. Long, manager of W' m. Ren- 

 nie's greenhouses, to The Horticulturist a 

 few days ago, " do better when planted in 

 the fall. All those plants which make an 

 early start in the spring can be set out about 

 the. last of September or early in October. 

 This usually results in earlier bloom and a 

 larger truss of better flowers. 



" There are, however, some perennials, 

 such as the hollyhock, which are very un- 

 satisfactory when fall planting is practiced. 

 The frost kills a large percentage of them. 



Beautiful Border of Hardy Perennials 



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