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Many of the hardy perennials may be grown from seed, 

 although, as a rule, they do not blossom until the second 

 season. This commonly is the cheapest way, however, to 

 get a supply of plants, and it is worth while to raise them in 

 this manner, especially where money is not available to buy 

 well developed plants for starting the border garden. The 

 plants themselves should be purchased in the case of phlox, 

 iris, and any sorts which, while multiplied easily by division, 

 cannot be obtained in choice varieties from seed. 



CLIMBING VINES 



The climbing vines serve a particularly useful purpose in 

 covering with a beautiful mass of leaves and flowers, fences, 

 porches, arbors, and the sides of buildings. Nearly all re- 

 quire some support which will enable them to get up in the 

 world by means of tendrils or leaf -stalks or twining stems. 

 Many of the best climbing plants are annual vines. And 

 these are particularly useful on account of their cheapness 

 and their rapidity of growth. The seeds may be planted in 

 the spring with the expectation that by the middle of summer 

 a growth of many feet will have been made, and that the 

 plants will retain their beauty through the remainder of the 

 season. 



The typical morning-glories belong to the great genus 

 Tpomoea, which includes also the moon-flower and cypress 

 vine. In some seed catalogues various sorts of bind weeds 

 of the genus Convolvulus are also called morning-glories. 

 Some of the typical morning-glories of the former group 

 are annuals, while others are perennials. The largest and 

 most beautiful sorts are the Japanese or Imperial Morning- 

 glories which were introduced from Japan a few years ago, 



