2i 6 The American Flower Garden 



and to our own bettering in our gardens is so to use the plants that 

 they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our 

 eyes, they should be always training those eyes to a more exalted 

 criticism; to a state of mind and artistic conscience that will not 

 tolerate bad or careless combination or any sort of misuse of 

 plants, but in which it becomes a point of honour to be always 

 striving for the best. It is just in the way it is done that lies the 

 whole difference between commonplace gardening and gardening 

 that may rightly claim to rank as a fine art.&quot; 



PERENNIALS FOR THE HERBACEOUS BORDER 



Plants marked (*) thus are suitable for situations surrounding the water garden. 

 NOTE. The date of flowering given is that for the neighbourhood of New York, and 

 will of course vary, earlier to the South, later to the North, in most cases. 



ACONITE, AUTUMN (Aconitum autumnale). Blue, lilac, whitish. Sep 

 tember to November; 3 to 5 feet. Valuable as a successor to the 

 aconite or monkshood, which flowers earlier. Flowers not so open. 

 Of easiest cultivation, thriving under same conditions as monkshood. 



ADONIS (Adonis Amurensis, A. Davtirica). Yellow. March; I foot. 

 Earliest flowering, long-lived spring-blooming perennial, easily grown 

 in full sunshine. Plant early (March I5th), or early September, 

 or get pot-grown plants. 



ALUM ROOT. See CORAL BELLS. 



ANEMONE, JAPANESE (Anemone Japonlcd). Rose, white. September 

 to October; 2 to 4 feet. More and larger flowers in late September 

 than any other perennial. Blooms until hard freeze. Flowers 

 2 to 3 inches across. Best in partial shade, in cool, loose, moist and 

 rich soil. Cover in winter. Generally dies if transplanted in fall. 

 Single, double and semi-double named varieties. 



BABY S BREATH (Gypsophila paniculata). White. June, July; 2 to 3 

 feet. Very numerous minute flowers borne on a gracefully branched 

 feathery stalk. Excellent for cutting and for giving lightness to other 

 cut flowers, and for giving mist-like effects in borders. Fairly dry, 

 open places, also good for rockeries. Cut stalks may be dried and 

 used all winter. 



