CHAPTER XIX 



THE HARDY GARDEN 



IS a permanent investment, possible only in 

 the permanent home. It adds dignity and 

 charm attainable from no other form of planting. 

 It is to the outdoor life of the home what the 

 possession of colonial furniture and family heir- 

 looms is to the indoor life, and yet is neither ex- 

 pensive nor tedious in its inception. It may be 

 acquired fully grown, as it were, by an order to 

 the florist for ready grown plants of blossoming 

 size, ready to give seasonal bloom, or it may be 

 developed in a few months, inexpensively and 

 most interestingly, by procuring the seeds of as 

 many desirable varieties of hardy perennials as 

 one has room or inclination for and planting them 

 in the hotbed in early spring, and transplanting 

 into permanent positions when large enough or, 

 better still, by planting the seed in cold frames in 



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