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does not give the result of tests in the United 

 States, ascertain whether the plant is catalogued 

 by reputable American houses. The perennials 

 that they offer are a very much abridged list as 

 compared with British ones and generally they are 

 either reliably hardy as far North as Boston, or 

 relative tenderness is plainly indicated. 



All of these things should be clearly understood 

 before any definite attempt to grow perennials is 

 made. Such understanding is absolutely essential 

 for determining the special value of perennials not 

 merely to the garden world but narrowed down 

 to the province of your particular garden. What 

 you want to know above all is the worth of peren- 

 nials to you as working material. 



This enables the choice from the embarrasingly 

 large list to be made with the intelligence that 

 prevents useless waste of time and money in the 

 endeavor to do what is not worth while in an in- 

 dividual case. 



For the great pleasure in growing perennials is 

 to devote time and money to those that are dis- 

 tinctly worth while in one's own case. There is a 

 host of them available after the most ruthless proc- 

 ess of rejection that any one of a thousand cir- 

 cumstances would necessitate. The sacrifice will 

 never be so great that the true philosopher will 

 not be able to find solace in the garden of a dif- 

 ferently situated neighbor or friend, or a public 

 collection of plants. 



In making a list of availables for final choice 



