A New Perennial Garden 



our best energies, as well as the lion's 

 share of food. In short, the flower-garden 

 takes what it can get, copes more or less 

 successfully with its own weeds, and pos- 

 sibly is more satisfactory than if we took 

 more pains with it, and so were liable to 

 disappointments. It is not at all well 

 adapted to annuals, even Mignonettes 

 and Asters, which are sown every year, 

 for the stronger plants rob them of their 

 proper nutriment ; but I have future plans 

 for a parterre in that neighborhood, which 

 shall have fitting accommodation for all 

 the sweet old-fashioned kinds of yearly 

 flowers. 



Supplemented by the old garden, the A 



new will even now at any season afford a 

 fragrant and showy nosegay, such as our 

 grandmothers liked for a beaupot, and 

 there is always a mass of color under the 

 Pear-trees until late in November, when 

 the cold pinches the very last Calendula. 

 The neighborhood of the salt water makes 

 this garden cold, and slow to awake in 

 spring ; but, on the other hand, it modifies 

 the temperature in the autumn, so that it 

 escapes the early frosts, and, under the 

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