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plants frequently perish from pernicious anaemia. Of 

 the number of plants needed, each gardener must be 

 the judge; also, in spite of many warnings and direc- 

 tions, each one must finally work on the lines of per- 

 sonally won experience. What is acceptable to the soil 

 and protected by certain shelter in my garden on one 

 side of hill crest or road may not flourish in a different 

 soil and exposure only a mile away. One thing is 

 very certain, however, it is time wasted to plant a 

 hardy garden of herbaceous plants in shallow soil. 



In starting the hardy seed bed it is always safe to plant 

 columbines, Canterbury bells, coreopsis, larkspur, 

 pinks in variety, foxgloves, hollyhocks, gaillardia, the 

 cheerful evergreen candy-tuft, bee balm and its cousin 

 wild bergamot, forget-me-nots, evening primroses, and 

 the day-flowering sundrops, Iceland and Oriental pop- 

 pies, hybrid phlox, the primrose and cowslips of both 

 English fields and gardens, that are quite hardy here (at 

 least in the coastwise New England and Middle states), 

 double feverfew, lupins, honesty, with its profusion of 

 lilac and white bloom and seed vessels that glisten like 

 mother-of-pearl, the tall snapdragons, decorative alike 

 in garden or house, fraxinella or gas plant, with its 

 spikes of odd white flowers, and pansies, always pansies, 

 for the open in spring and autumn, in rich, shady nooks 



