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some hardy flowers in your garden if the garden is 

 to be yours for some time, but if you have a garden 

 that is to be yours only for this year, then I should 

 not advise you to start the hardy varieties. You 

 can have annual flowers among the hardies, if you 

 wish, so you need not feel you have to give up your 

 favorite annuals. 



Have you grown very fond of Larkspur? You 

 can have a hardy kind if you want. It grows much 

 taller than the annual and will grow into a big 

 bushy clump after a few years. They come in many 

 shades of blues, and white, the blossoms on the 

 spikes are so large that the centers (which are dark 

 brown or black) look like bees. 



Perhaps you have grown fond of Phlox and 

 would like to have this for a continual garden friend. 

 Hardy phlox grows much taller than the annual 

 phlox drummondi; the heads of bloom are larger 

 than a baseball; you can have them in almost any 

 color, red, pink, white, purple, striped, shaded and 

 with centers of a contrasting color. Then there is 

 a variety that creeps close to the ground and is very 

 beautiful for the edge of gardens. 



Hardy Asters are quite different from the asters 

 you planted in the spring. The blossoms are very 

 small, but so many of them grow on a single stem 



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