The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



of bloom and one not commonly seen. This was 

 a permanent planting requiring little care be- 

 yond the removal of all weeds and grass in the 

 spring and an occasional thinning out of the 

 plants when they became too crowded. The 

 physostegia increases rapidly by root division 

 and the lychnis, feverfew and aquilegias all self- 

 sow so the bed practically never ran out or needed 

 renewing and the cost, except for the tritomas, 

 was that of a few packets of seeds — probably 

 a total of fifty cents for some one hundred and 

 fifty square feet of loveliness, and there are many, 

 many combinations as happy and as easily ac- 

 quired as that. 



Lacking the convenience of hotbeds and cold 

 frames, the vegetable garden is a most excellent 

 place in which to start hardy perennials for a per- 

 manent garden. Flowers planted in rows among 

 vegetables always seem to do better than any- 

 where else, the reason being that they are not 

 crowded — usually being in single rows with a 

 foot or more of open space at each side through 

 which the hoe and cultivator can work freely, and 



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